Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 (Page 1)
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Eventually it was known, when the town grew inquisitive, and the critics were compelled to ferret out his antecedents, that the new actor had already attained middle age,--that he had been vegetating for years in that obscurest and most miserable of all dramatic positions, the low comedian of a country-theatre,--that he had come timidly to London and accepted at a low salary the post of buffoon at a half-theatre half-saloon in the City Road, called indifferently the "Grecian" and the "Eagle," where he had danced and tumbled, and sung comic songs, and delivered the dismal waggeries set down for him, without any marked success, and almost without notice.