Critical Essays on Dramatic PoetryL. Davis and C. Reymers, 1761 - 274 pages |
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... Paris , it is not , my lord , that there are wanting in France men of great merit , and excellent judges , to whom I might have paid that ho- mage . But , you know , the tragedy of Bru- tus was begun in England : you remember when I was ...
... Paris , it is not , my lord , that there are wanting in France men of great merit , and excellent judges , to whom I might have paid that ho- mage . But , you know , the tragedy of Bru- tus was begun in England : you remember when I was ...
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... Paris in the year 59 , through the means and at the expence of the Count de Lauragais , whom it cost about a thousand Pounds fterling , for the different changes and repara- tions that this reformation required . This young nobleman is ...
... Paris in the year 59 , through the means and at the expence of the Count de Lauragais , whom it cost about a thousand Pounds fterling , for the different changes and repara- tions that this reformation required . This young nobleman is ...
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... Paris , do not you think the pit would be fhocked , and the ladies fhudder ? You cannot imagine how far they push this fort of delicacy . The author of our tragedy of Manlius took his fubject from Mr. Otway's Ve- nice Preferved ; and ...
... Paris , do not you think the pit would be fhocked , and the ladies fhudder ? You cannot imagine how far they push this fort of delicacy . The author of our tragedy of Manlius took his fubject from Mr. Otway's Ve- nice Preferved ; and ...
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... Paris : the scene opened by a new fpectacle : a palace was represented of a magnificent but barbarous structure ; Montezuma appeared in a very fingu- lar drefs ; arrow - armed flaves were placed at the bottom of the stage ; eight ...
... Paris : the scene opened by a new fpectacle : a palace was represented of a magnificent but barbarous structure ; Montezuma appeared in a very fingu- lar drefs ; arrow - armed flaves were placed at the bottom of the stage ; eight ...
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... Paris . I must own , that authors would have little un- derstood their intereft , or little known their au- dience's inclinations , if they had never made an Oldfield , a Duclos * , or a le Couvreur + speak but of ambition or politics ...
... Paris . I must own , that authors would have little un- derstood their intereft , or little known their au- dience's inclinations , if they had never made an Oldfield , a Duclos * , or a le Couvreur + speak but of ambition or politics ...
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