The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... Play according to your Dramatick Rules , as you call them ? Should your Peo- ple in Tragedy always talk to be understood ? Why , there is not a fingle Sentence in this Play that I do not know the Meaning of . THE Fourth A & t very ...
... Play according to your Dramatick Rules , as you call them ? Should your Peo- ple in Tragedy always talk to be understood ? Why , there is not a fingle Sentence in this Play that I do not know the Meaning of . THE Fourth A & t very ...
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< felves , Pieces intirely detached from the 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 Andromache ftone - dead upon the Stage ...
< felves , Pieces intirely detached from the 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 Andromache ftone - dead upon the Stage ...
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... Play , called The Humorous Lieutenant . Upon the Rifing of the Curtain I was very much fur- prifed with the great Confort of Cat - calls which was exhibited that Evening , and began to think with my ⚫ felf that I had made a mistake ...
... Play , called The Humorous Lieutenant . Upon the Rifing of the Curtain I was very much fur- prifed with the great Confort of Cat - calls which was exhibited that Evening , and began to think with my ⚫ felf that I had made a mistake ...
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