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Pagina 14
... play with a witty epilogue . On one occasion , Nell Gwynne , in the charac- ter of St. Catherine , was , at the end of the play , left for dead upon the stage . Her body having to be removed , the actress suddenly started to her feet ...
... play with a witty epilogue . On one occasion , Nell Gwynne , in the charac- ter of St. Catherine , was , at the end of the play , left for dead upon the stage . Her body having to be removed , the actress suddenly started to her feet ...
Pagina 15
... play , and my virtuous indignation shall rise against the profligate wretch as warmly as the Catos of the pit could desire , because in a modern play I am to judge of the right and the wrong . The standard of police is the measure of ...
... play , and my virtuous indignation shall rise against the profligate wretch as warmly as the Catos of the pit could desire , because in a modern play I am to judge of the right and the wrong . The standard of police is the measure of ...
Pagina 16
... plays of Etherege , Shadwell , Wycherley , and Congreve affect us to - day ; and it is no doubt superfluous to expend much moral indignation on works which have long since lost their power to charm ; come- dies in which the reader finds ...
... plays of Etherege , Shadwell , Wycherley , and Congreve affect us to - day ; and it is no doubt superfluous to expend much moral indignation on works which have long since lost their power to charm ; come- dies in which the reader finds ...
Pagina 17
... play for it seems he is an atheist , if we may depend upon his character as given by the orange - woman , who is herself far from being the lowest in the play . She says of a fine man who is Dorimant's companion , ' there is not such ...
... play for it seems he is an atheist , if we may depend upon his character as given by the orange - woman , who is herself far from being the lowest in the play . She says of a fine man who is Dorimant's companion , ' there is not such ...
Pagina 18
... play , while they loudly applauded their obscene allusions . So gross was the character of comic dialogue that women ... plays which were always assigned to the female actors . It at first sight seems remarkable that a society ...
... play , while they loudly applauded their obscene allusions . So gross was the character of comic dialogue that women ... plays which were always assigned to the female actors . It at first sight seems remarkable that a society ...
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