Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: M-Z. Latin plays by English authors. Oratorios. Appendix to v. 2 and 3. Additions and corrections to v. 2 and 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812 - Actors |
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... audience , at their dresses , " which they think frightful , but " which , in fact , conceal neither " their bright eyes , nor rosy lips , nor , scarcely , their neat silk " stockings . Now all this inter- " ruption to the solemn ...
... audience , at their dresses , " which they think frightful , but " which , in fact , conceal neither " their bright eyes , nor rosy lips , nor , scarcely , their neat silk " stockings . Now all this inter- " ruption to the solemn ...
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... audience condemned this piece to oblivion , after , we think , two representations . 32. THE MAGNET . Musical Entertainment . Performed at Marybone Gardens . 8vo . 1771.— This magnet has little attraction without the aid of its music ...
... audience condemned this piece to oblivion , after , we think , two representations . 32. THE MAGNET . Musical Entertainment . Performed at Marybone Gardens . 8vo . 1771.— This magnet has little attraction without the aid of its music ...
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... audience with regard to its author , who unfortunately did not МАН survive to reap any advantage from it ; for , being unable to put the fi- nishing hand to it , he received some assistance in the completing of it from Dr. John Hoadly ...
... audience with regard to its author , who unfortunately did not МАН survive to reap any advantage from it ; for , being unable to put the fi- nishing hand to it , he received some assistance in the completing of it from Dr. John Hoadly ...
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... audience carried it through " with applause , and the next " night it had no opponents : the " more temperate of that nation " argued very justly , that the " character of Sir Pertinax should " not hurt the feelings of any good ...
... audience carried it through " with applause , and the next " night it had no opponents : the " more temperate of that nation " argued very justly , that the " character of Sir Pertinax should " not hurt the feelings of any good ...
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... audience ; a mode of com- munication so contrary to the na- ture of dramatic representation , that no precedents can support it . The discourse of the Spirit is too long ; an objection that may be made to almost all the following ...
... audience ; a mode of com- munication so contrary to the na- ture of dramatic representation , that no precedents can support it . The discourse of the Spirit is too long ; an objection that may be made to almost all the following ...
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