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" ... it is a speck upon the eye of the political body, which I can never touch but with a gentle, with a trembling hand, lest I destroy the body, lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a play... "
The History and Proceedings of the House of Lords from the Restoration in ... - Page 209
by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1742
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The History and Proceedings of the House of Lords, from the Restoration in ...

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1742 - 462 pages
...If the Stage becomes at any time licentious, if a Play appears to be a Libel upon the Government, pr upon any particular Man, the King's Courts are open,...fufficient for punching the Offender ; and in this Cafe the Perfcn injured has a fingular Advantage ; he can be under no Difficulty to prove who is the Publifher...
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4

1774 - 846 pages
...leit I hurt the eye upon which is is apt to appsar. " If the Stage becomes at any time licentious ; if a Play appears to be a libel upon the government,...the King's courts are open, the law is fufficient to punifh the offender: If Poets and Players are to be restrained, let them be retrained as other fubjefts...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

British Plutarch - Great Britain - 1776 - 350 pages
...left I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appeal'. If the ftage becomes at any time licentious ; if a play appears to be a libel upon the government,...any particular man, the king's courts are open, the laws are fufficient for punifhing the offender, and, in this cafe, the perfon injured has a lingular...
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Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of ..., Volume 2

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1779 - 490 pages
...left I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the Stage becomes at any time lIcentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon the government,...king's courts are open, the law. is fufficient for pun itbing the offender; and in this cai the perfon injured has a fingular advantage, he can MISCELLANEOUS...
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Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of ..., Volume 2

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1779 - 490 pages
...left I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the ftage becomes at any time licentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon the government,...king's courts are open, the law is fufficient for punifhing the offender; and in this cafe the perfon injured has a fingular advantage, he can MISCELLANEOUS...
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The History of England: From the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. 4

Tobias George Smollett - 1793 - 376 pages
...I " injore the eye upon which it is apt to appear. " If the ftage becomes at any time licentious , if " a play appears to be a libel upon the government,...the King's courts " are open : the law is fufficient to punifh the " offender. If poets and players are to be reftrained " let them be reftrained as other...
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq: Principally Compiled from His ...

James Thomas Kirkman - Theater - 1799 - 510 pages
...I injure the eye, upon which it is apt to appear. — If the Stage becomes at any time licentious, if a Play appears to be a libel upon the Government,...particular man, the King's Courts are open-; the law is fuffioient for punching the offender ; and, in this cafe, the perfon injured has a fingular advantage;...
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The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George ...

Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1800 - 594 pages
...the eye, upon J x " which it is apt to appear. If the ftage becomes JT. '.' at any time licentious, if a play appears to be a " libel upon the government, or upon any particu- I " lar man, the King's courts are open ; the law is " fufficient to punifh the offender....
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon the government,...any particular man, the king's courts are open ; the * Pasquin, a comedy. f King Charles I. a tragedy. few is sufficient for punishing the offender ; and...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...lest I injure the eye upon which it is apt to appear. If the stage becomes at any time licentious, if a play appears to be a libel upon the government,...any particular man, the king's courts are open ; the * Pasquin, a comedy. t King Charles I. a tragedy. law is sufficient for punishing the offender ; and...
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