The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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Page iii
... thought , is generally considered the most im- portant part of such communication - the preface to a book is looked upon in the same light . The matter contained in the pages which these remarks precede , would not have required any ...
... thought , is generally considered the most im- portant part of such communication - the preface to a book is looked upon in the same light . The matter contained in the pages which these remarks precede , would not have required any ...
Page vi
... thought of it ; the latter remarked , " Warburton has most general , Lowth most scholastic , learning ; Lowth " is the more correct scholar . I do not know which of " them calls names best . " The King was of the same opinion , and ...
... thought of it ; the latter remarked , " Warburton has most general , Lowth most scholastic , learning ; Lowth " is the more correct scholar . I do not know which of " them calls names best . " The King was of the same opinion , and ...
Page vii
... thought of for such an offending varlet , who had carried his attempt at reform in this matter so far , that he had set at nought the prerogative of the Crown , and hurled defiance in the face of Her Majesty's Ministers . viii 66 ...
... thought of for such an offending varlet , who had carried his attempt at reform in this matter so far , that he had set at nought the prerogative of the Crown , and hurled defiance in the face of Her Majesty's Ministers . viii 66 ...
Page xxiv
... thought proper to disparage my management of the stage , I have thought proper to disparage his writings for the stage ; and both of us , no doubt , have been regulated by a strict regard to truth and justice . Then “ my learned friend ...
... thought proper to disparage my management of the stage , I have thought proper to disparage his writings for the stage ; and both of us , no doubt , have been regulated by a strict regard to truth and justice . Then “ my learned friend ...
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... circulated , and such erroneous impressions have thereby been imbibed , that having come in for rather more than my due share of flagellation , I have thought it necessary at last to respond to it . The reader will , at the.
... circulated , and such erroneous impressions have thereby been imbibed , that having come in for rather more than my due share of flagellation , I have thought it necessary at last to respond to it . The reader will , at the.
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