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... plays that keep possession of the stage , and has pleased for almost a century through all the vicissitudes of dramatick fashion . Of this play nothing new can easily be said . It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life . Its ...
... plays that keep possession of the stage , and has pleased for almost a century through all the vicissitudes of dramatick fashion . Of this play nothing new can easily be said . It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life . Its ...
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... play . ' Works , vii . 203. Johnson defines scenery , as here used , as ' the disposition and consecution of the scenes of a play . ' ' It took prodigiously , being acted ten nights together . ' Roscius Angli- canus , p . 47. The ...
... play . ' Works , vii . 203. Johnson defines scenery , as here used , as ' the disposition and consecution of the scenes of a play . ' ' It took prodigiously , being acted ten nights together . ' Roscius Angli- canus , p . 47. The ...
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... play 90 was considered as less likely to be well received if some of his verses did not introduce it . The price of ... play . ' Warburton's Pope , vi . 66 . How they found their account in this I cannot understand , seeing that the ...
... play 90 was considered as less likely to be well received if some of his verses did not introduce it . The price of ... play . ' Warburton's Pope , vi . 66 . How they found their account in this I cannot understand , seeing that the ...
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