The Spectator: Corrected from the Originals, Volume 5George B. Whittaker, 1827 |
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... play , and no way essential to it . The moment the play ends , Mrs. Oldfield is no more Andromache but Mrs. Oldfield ; and though the poet had left Andromache stone - dead upon the stage , as your ingenious correspondent phrases it ...
... play , and no way essential to it . The moment the play ends , Mrs. Oldfield is no more Andromache but Mrs. Oldfield ; and though the poet had left Andromache stone - dead upon the stage , as your ingenious correspondent phrases it ...
Page 217
... play ; since every one knows that nation , who are generally esteemed to have as polite a taste as any in Europe ... play when Italian operas were in vogue , to rally the vitiated taste of the town in preferring sound to sense . Prior ...
... play ; since every one knows that nation , who are generally esteemed to have as polite a taste as any in Europe ... play when Italian operas were in vogue , to rally the vitiated taste of the town in preferring sound to sense . Prior ...
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... player . In short , he teaches the smut - note , the fustian note , the stupid note , and has composed a kind of air that may serve as an act - tune to an in- corrigible play , and which takes in the whole com- pass of the cat - call ...
... player . In short , he teaches the smut - note , the fustian note , the stupid note , and has composed a kind of air that may serve as an act - tune to an in- corrigible play , and which takes in the whole com- pass of the cat - call ...
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