Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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... OF DR . FRANCIS LIEBER , Professor of History and Law in Columbia College , New York . THE GIFT OF MICHAEL REESE , Of San Francisco . 1873 . 909 V MEMOIRS or RICHARD CUMBERLAND . WRITTEN BY HIMSELF . 1 Dramatic в Brog.
... OF DR . FRANCIS LIEBER , Professor of History and Law in Columbia College , New York . THE GIFT OF MICHAEL REESE , Of San Francisco . 1873 . 909 V MEMOIRS or RICHARD CUMBERLAND . WRITTEN BY HIMSELF . 1 Dramatic в Brog.
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... drama , and as Shakespear was most upon my tongue and nearest to my heart , I fitted and compiled a kind of cento , which I intitled Shakespear in the Shades , and formed into one act , selecting the characters of Ham- let and Ophelia ...
... drama , and as Shakespear was most upon my tongue and nearest to my heart , I fitted and compiled a kind of cento , which I intitled Shakespear in the Shades , and formed into one act , selecting the characters of Ham- let and Ophelia ...
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... chorus , yet I was warm in my praises of that general- ly - admired production , and in imitation of it . planned and composed an entire drama , of which Charactacus 1 116 MEMOIRS OF and the habitudes of thinking, I had so recent- ...
... chorus , yet I was warm in my praises of that general- ly - admired production , and in imitation of it . planned and composed an entire drama , of which Charactacus 1 116 MEMOIRS OF and the habitudes of thinking, I had so recent- ...
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... drama : but though in this particular I have the good chance to agree with him , in point of plot I stray equally from him and from the history , for not writing with any thought of publication , I wove into my drama some cha- racters ...
... drama : but though in this particular I have the good chance to agree with him , in point of plot I stray equally from him and from the history , for not writing with any thought of publication , I wove into my drama some cha- racters ...
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... drama ; our re- spective families indulged us in our propensities , and were mutually amused with our domestic exhibitions . My friend Jeffery was in my fa- mily , as I was in his , an inmate ever welcome ; his genius was quick and ...
... drama ; our re- spective families indulged us in our propensities , and were mutually amused with our domestic exhibitions . My friend Jeffery was in my fa- mily , as I was in his , an inmate ever welcome ; his genius was quick and ...
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