The Spectator, Volume 5Payne, Rivington, 1799 - English essays |
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Page 67
... play according to your dramatick rules , as you call them ? Should your people in tragedy always talk to be understood ? Why , there is not a fingle fentence in this play that I do not know the meaning of . The fourth act very luckily ...
... play according to your dramatick rules , as you call them ? Should your people in tragedy always talk to be understood ? Why , there is not a fingle fentence in this play that I do not know the meaning of . The fourth act very luckily ...
Page 94
... play , and no way effential to it . ' The moment the play ends , Mrs. Oldfield is no more Andromache , but Mrs. Oldfield ; and tho ' the poet had left Andromace ftone - dead upon the stage , as your ingenious correfpondent phrafes it ...
... play , and no way effential to it . ' The moment the play ends , Mrs. Oldfield is no more Andromache , but Mrs. Oldfield ; and tho ' the poet had left Andromace ftone - dead upon the stage , as your ingenious correfpondent phrafes it ...
Page 185
... player . In fhort , he teaches the fmut - note , the fuftian - note , the ftupid - note , and has compofed a kind of air that may ferve as an act - tune to an incorri- gible play , and which takes in the whole compass of the Cat - call ...
... player . In fhort , he teaches the fmut - note , the fuftian - note , the ftupid - note , and has compofed a kind of air that may ferve as an act - tune to an incorri- gible play , and which takes in the whole compass of the Cat - call ...
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