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Threadbare is the simile which compares the world to a stage. Schiller, less complimentary than Shakspeare, lowers the illustration from a stage to a puppet-show. But ever between realities and shows there is a secret communication, an undetected interchange, -- sometimes a stern reality in the heart of the ostensible actor, a fantastic stage-play in the brain of the unnoticed spectator. The bandit's child on the proscenium is still poor little Sophy, in spite of garlands and rouge. But that honest rough-looking fellow to whom, in respect for services to sovereign and country, the apprentice yields way, may he not be -- the crafty Comedian?
TARAN-TARANTARA! rub-a-dub-dub! play up horn! roll drum! a quarter to eight; and the crowd already thick before Rugge's Grand Exhibition, -- " Remorseless Baron and Bandit's Child! Young Phenomenon, -- Juliet Araminta, -- Patronized by the Nobility in general, and expecting daily to be summoned to perform before the Queen, -- /Vivat Regina! /" -- Ruba-dub- dub! The company issue from the curtain, range in front of the proscenuim. Splendid dresses. The Phenomenon! -- 't is she!