Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism, 1808-1831, Volume 10Columbia University Press, 1949 - 347 pages |
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Page 11
... true quackery of theatres : they must im- pose upon people by the vilest puffs , before their physic can be swallowed : the new audience on the second night do not like to condemn a piece which has been so highly applauded by the ...
... true quackery of theatres : they must im- pose upon people by the vilest puffs , before their physic can be swallowed : the new audience on the second night do not like to condemn a piece which has been so highly applauded by the ...
Page 76
... true one . He is too doleful in some parts of it , and has too little of the metropolitan about his general appearance : he looks in short like a jolly young farmer sporting a new pair of boots and buckskins on a market day ; whereas ...
... true one . He is too doleful in some parts of it , and has too little of the metropolitan about his general appearance : he looks in short like a jolly young farmer sporting a new pair of boots and buckskins on a market day ; whereas ...
Page 165
... true of any of the persons here mentioned ; but we can believe it of performers in general , because they stand in the thick of so much personal panegyric , which at once stimulates their vanity and is the ex- cuse for it . It is not to ...
... true of any of the persons here mentioned ; but we can believe it of performers in general , because they stand in the thick of so much personal panegyric , which at once stimulates their vanity and is the ex- cuse for it . It is not to ...
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CRITICISM ON SHAKSPEARES MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 3 |
MR T DIBDINS MOCKMELODRAMA | 10 |
MR YOUNGS MERITS CONSIDERED | 21 |
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