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Miss Kelly

In The Examiner for December 20, 1818, after Leigh Hunt’s criticism of Kenney’s comedy “A Word for the Ladies” is the following paragraph. Leigh Hunt’s criticism is signed: this is not, nor is it joined to the article. There is, I think, good reason to believe it to be Lamb’s:—

It was not without a feeling of pain, that we observed Miss Kelly among the spectators on the first night of the new comedy. What does she do before the curtain? She should have been on the stage. With such youth, such talents,—
Those powers of pleasing, with that will to please,
it is too much that she should be forgotten discarded, laid aside like
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an old fashion. It really is not yet the season for her “among the wastes of time to go.” Is it Mr. Stephen Kemble, or the Sub-Committee; or what heavy body is it, which interposes itself between us and this light of the stage?

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