Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached at Great St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, on Sunday September 25, and Sunday October 2, 1808; with Copious Supplementary Notes |
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... love with Edward , says , Sure something more than Fortune join'd your loves : Nor could his greatness , and his gracious form , Be elsewhere match'd so well . Ditto . But we find ... CONSCIOUS LOVERS , there is 136 NOTES ON DISCOURSE II .
... love with Edward , says , Sure something more than Fortune join'd your loves : Nor could his greatness , and his gracious form , Be elsewhere match'd so well . Ditto . But we find ... CONSCIOUS LOVERS , there is 136 NOTES ON DISCOURSE II .
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... CONSCIOUS LOVERS , there is an odd mixture of Providence , Fortune , and Fate ; and , if the author admitted the first , there seems to be no reason why it should not have been retained throughout . When Young Bevil is giving an account ...
... CONSCIOUS LOVERS , there is an odd mixture of Providence , Fortune , and Fate ; and , if the author admitted the first , there seems to be no reason why it should not have been retained throughout . When Young Bevil is giving an account ...
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... love ! what duty can repay such obligations ? And , afterwards , Lord T. says to Manly , after his sister , Lady Grace ... Conscious Lovers . To these I will add Belville and Rosina , in the Opera of Rosina , which is profess- edly taken ...
... love ! what duty can repay such obligations ? And , afterwards , Lord T. says to Manly , after his sister , Lady Grace ... Conscious Lovers . To these I will add Belville and Rosina , in the Opera of Rosina , which is profess- edly taken ...
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... Conscious Lovers is one of the most finished pictures of a gentleman , with which I am acquainted ; but from his character there are certainly some deductions , as his duplicity towards his father , his joining in the plot with Myrtle ...
... Conscious Lovers is one of the most finished pictures of a gentleman , with which I am acquainted ; but from his character there are certainly some deductions , as his duplicity towards his father , his joining in the plot with Myrtle ...
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... Conscious Lovers , which con- tains some excellent sentiments on this head . Myrtle has challenged Young Bevil : Young Bevil , says , " Sir , you know , I have often dared to disapprove the decisions that tyrant custom has introduced ...
... Conscious Lovers , which con- tains some excellent sentiments on this head . Myrtle has challenged Young Bevil : Young Bevil , says , " Sir , you know , I have often dared to disapprove the decisions that tyrant custom has introduced ...
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