Bell's British Theatre, Volume 21John Bell J. Bell, 1797 |
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... LONDON : Printed for the Proprietors , under the Direction of JOHN BELL , British - Library , STRAND , Bookseller to His Royal Highness the PRINCE OF WALES , MDCCXCII . PREFACE . THE abilities of Dryden as a writer , AMPHITRYON ;
... LONDON : Printed for the Proprietors , under the Direction of JOHN BELL , British - Library , STRAND , Bookseller to His Royal Highness the PRINCE OF WALES , MDCCXCII . PREFACE . THE abilities of Dryden as a writer , AMPHITRYON ;
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... Amphitryon , indeed , the reason is evident ; for it is so tainted with the profaneness and immodesty of the time in ... Amphitryon is supposed to have sent a buckle of diamonds by Sosia , as a present to Alcmena ; for Sosia first asks ...
... Amphitryon , indeed , the reason is evident ; for it is so tainted with the profaneness and immodesty of the time in ... Amphitryon is supposed to have sent a buckle of diamonds by Sosia , as a present to Alcmena ; for Sosia first asks ...
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... Amphitryon cannot believe it ; yet , when Alcmena , in the Third Act , asks Amphitryon how she came to know what he had sent Sosia to tell ber , Amphitryon , in astonishment , seems to admit that she could know these particulars only ...
... Amphitryon cannot believe it ; yet , when Alcmena , in the Third Act , asks Amphitryon how she came to know what he had sent Sosia to tell ber , Amphitryon , in astonishment , seems to admit that she could know these particulars only ...
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... Amphitryon , which , though I did not obliterate , I would not have written ; but I think none of these are exceptionable in a moral view . There are many passages in which lord Amphitryon and lady Alcmena are treated by their servants ...
... Amphitryon , which , though I did not obliterate , I would not have written ; but I think none of these are exceptionable in a moral view . There are many passages in which lord Amphitryon and lady Alcmena are treated by their servants ...
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John Bell. AMPHITRYON . THIS subject had occupied the rugged PLAUTUS , who has built upon it a latin comedy from which the play of MOLIERE is translated . DRYDEN in whom something great and something little unhappily kept ... AMPHITRYON. ...
John Bell. AMPHITRYON . THIS subject had occupied the rugged PLAUTUS , who has built upon it a latin comedy from which the play of MOLIERE is translated . DRYDEN in whom something great and something little unhappily kept ... AMPHITRYON. ...
Common terms and phrases
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