Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining KnowledgeR. Gibson, 1786 |
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... firft ftudents who occu- piede new buildings . In this University he very early gave a promife of thofe uncom- mon talents , and that capacious mind , which have fince diftinguished the progress of his public conduct . Before he was of ...
... firft ftudents who occu- piede new buildings . In this University he very early gave a promife of thofe uncom- mon talents , and that capacious mind , which have fince diftinguished the progress of his public conduct . Before he was of ...
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... firft appearance was in the year 1728 at Drury Lane theatre , in the play of Mithridates . The part the performed was that of Ifinenes , the page of Dr. Ziphores , in boy's cloaths , in which cha- racter a fong proper to the ...
... firft appearance was in the year 1728 at Drury Lane theatre , in the play of Mithridates . The part the performed was that of Ifinenes , the page of Dr. Ziphores , in boy's cloaths , in which cha- racter a fong proper to the ...
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... firft flone of a New Theatre , which to be erected near Well - Clofe Square , was In confequence of a previous invitation , feveral of the magiftrates and patronizers of the plan affembled at the Court - House in Well - Clofe Square ...
... firft flone of a New Theatre , which to be erected near Well - Clofe Square , was In confequence of a previous invitation , feveral of the magiftrates and patronizers of the plan affembled at the Court - House in Well - Clofe Square ...
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... firft with avidity , and in the space of a twelvemonth will run through five or fix editions , then fall into oblivion , or exist only in the catalogues of a circulating library . The thirft for novelty makes our best works infipid ...
... firft with avidity , and in the space of a twelvemonth will run through five or fix editions , then fall into oblivion , or exist only in the catalogues of a circulating library . The thirft for novelty makes our best works infipid ...
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... firft ideas of a powerful , but untutored genius , and the gradual , but irrefiftible exertions , by which , under fuch great disadvantages , it arrived at laft to no common excellence and fame . His parents , though in very narrow cir ...
... firft ideas of a powerful , but untutored genius , and the gradual , but irrefiftible exertions , by which , under fuch great disadvantages , it arrived at laft to no common excellence and fame . His parents , though in very narrow cir ...
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