| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1742 - 462 pages
...what a few only could have feen acted, and that not under the Expence of half a Crown. We fhall then be told, What ! will you allow an infamous Libel to be printed and difperfed, which you would not allow to be acled ? You have agreed to a Law for -preventing its being... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - Great Britain - 1742 - 460 pages
...wrote by way of Novels, fecret Hiftories, Dialogue?, or under fome fach Title; and thereupon we fhall be told, What! will you allow an infamous Libel to be printed and difperfed, only btcaufe it does not bear the Title of a Piay ? Thus, my Lords, from the Precedent now... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1779 - 490 pages
...wrote by way of novels, fecret hiftories, dialogues, or under fome fuch title j and thereupon we fhall be told, What ! will you allow an infamous libel to be printed and difperfed, only becaufe it does not bear the title of a play ? Thus, my lords, from the precedent now... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1779 - 490 pages
...wtote by way of no vels, fecret hiftories, dialogues, or tinder fome fuch title; and thereupon we fhall be told, What! will you allow an infamous libel to be printed and dic. perfed, only becaufe it does not bear the title of a play? Thus, my lords, from the precedent... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...must, perhaps, next session, agree to a bill for preventing any plays being printed without a license. Then satires will be wrote by way of novels, secret...will you allow an infamous libel to be printed and jf dispersed, only because it does not bear the title of a play ? Thus, my lords, from the precedent... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...what a few only could have seen acted, and that not under the expense of half a crown. We shall then be told ; What ! will you allow an infamous libel to be printed and dispersed, which you would not allow to be acted ? You have agreed to a law to prevent its being acted : can you... | |
| Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...rfnstrated, which were never recorded in the public history of that period, for he thus sounds the alarm : " If we agree to the Bill now before us, we must, perhaps...histories, dialogues, or under some such title; and, therefore, we shall be told, what ! will you allow an infamous libel to be printed and dispersed only... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 676 pages
...rfustrated, which were never recorded in the public history of that period, for he thus sounds the alarm : " If we agree to the Bill now before us, we must, perhaps...histories, dialogues, or under some such title ; and, therefore, we .shall be told, what ! will you allow an infamous libel to be printed and dispersed only... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1838 - 520 pages
...the Bill now before us, we must, per" haps, next session agree to a Bill for preventing " any plays being printed without a licence. Then " satires will...will you " allow an infamous libel to be printed and dis" persed, only because it does not bear the title " of a play ? Thus, my Lords, from the precedent... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1837 - 496 pages
...the Bill now before us, we must, per" haps, next session agree to a Bill for preventing " any plays being printed without a licence. Then " satires will...will you " allow an infamous libel to be printed and dis" persed, only because it does not bear the title " of a play ? Thus, my Lords, from the precedent... | |
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