Miscellaneous Plays, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1804 - 438 pages |
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Page iv
... thought worthy of being admitted into that clafs of plays to which I am so defirous of adding fomething . However , I am fenfible that , were those plays more fuccefsful than I dare flatter myself to expect , they all require too much ...
... thought worthy of being admitted into that clafs of plays to which I am so defirous of adding fomething . However , I am fenfible that , were those plays more fuccefsful than I dare flatter myself to expect , they all require too much ...
Page vi
... thoughts , you would find yourself mi- ferably disappointed . " I offer to the public , therefore , a work of a kind fo nearly related to that in which I have already had fome degree of fuccefs and en- couragement , with almost the ...
... thoughts , you would find yourself mi- ferably disappointed . " I offer to the public , therefore , a work of a kind fo nearly related to that in which I have already had fome degree of fuccefs and en- couragement , with almost the ...
Page vii
... thoughts , and nar- ratives of every kind , the ideas they reprefat to the mind are as troops drawn out before it in loofe marfhalled array , whofe moft animated movements it furveys till as a fpec- tator ; whilst in reading a drama ...
... thoughts , and nar- ratives of every kind , the ideas they reprefat to the mind are as troops drawn out before it in loofe marfhalled array , whofe moft animated movements it furveys till as a fpec- tator ; whilst in reading a drama ...
Page xii
... thought there was fuf ficient matter in it , with fome alterations , to make an interefting play , not unfuited to the common circumftances of even our country theatres ; and indeed I have altered it fo confiderably that full one half ...
... thought there was fuf ficient matter in it , with fome alterations , to make an interefting play , not unfuited to the common circumftances of even our country theatres ; and indeed I have altered it fo confiderably that full one half ...
Page xiii
... thought in fome degree neceffary to fhew the cha- rader and temper of the mafter , and to intereft us in his favour before the great action of the piece begins , was entirely introduced in my later altera- tions , and is therefore ...
... thought in fome degree neceffary to fhew the cha- rader and temper of the mafter , and to intereft us in his favour before the great action of the piece begins , was entirely introduced in my later altera- tions , and is therefore ...
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