Miscellaneous Plays, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1804 - 438 pages |
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Page ix
... heart thinks of with pride , that a diftant and uncertain hope of having even but a very few of the pieces I offer to the public reprefented to it with approbation , when fome partiality for them as plays that have been frequently read ...
... heart thinks of with pride , that a diftant and uncertain hope of having even but a very few of the pieces I offer to the public reprefented to it with approbation , when fome partiality for them as plays that have been frequently read ...
Page xi
... I cannot find in my heart to blot it out , though , either on the ftage or in the closet , I make any body welcome to do it for me by paffing it over . ally referring to the particular circumftances under which it was ( xi )
... I cannot find in my heart to blot it out , though , either on the ftage or in the closet , I make any body welcome to do it for me by paffing it over . ally referring to the particular circumftances under which it was ( xi )
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Joanna Baillie. wards on this account to have died of a broken heart . I have endeavoured to reprefent him as a proud man with a high fenfe of honour , rather than natively brave , and therefore particularly puncti- lious in every thing ...
Joanna Baillie. wards on this account to have died of a broken heart . I have endeavoured to reprefent him as a proud man with a high fenfe of honour , rather than natively brave , and therefore particularly puncti- lious in every thing ...
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... hearts , fnug in fortune's lap , Who will not go to bed because we may ? Or club of sharpers , flufh'd with full fuccefs , New from the spoiling of fome fimple fool ? Or troop of strolling players , at our ease , After the labours of ...
... hearts , fnug in fortune's lap , Who will not go to bed because we may ? Or club of sharpers , flufh'd with full fuccefs , New from the spoiling of fome fimple fool ? Or troop of strolling players , at our ease , After the labours of ...
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... heart as truly tempered To all the fofteft witch'ries of refinement As e'er own'd cherifh'd heir of wide domains , In palace nurs❜d , SEBASTIAN , I've seen him when a youth . But he fince then has of a foreign state The foldier been ...
... heart as truly tempered To all the fofteft witch'ries of refinement As e'er own'd cherifh'd heir of wide domains , In palace nurs❜d , SEBASTIAN , I've seen him when a youth . But he fince then has of a foreign state The foldier been ...
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