Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 頁 |
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... Beggar's Opera , had the mortifi- cation to fee it again rejected . In the laft year of queen Anne's life , Gay was made fecretary to the earl of Clarendon , ambaffador to the court of Hanover . This was a ftation that na- turally gave ...
... Beggar's Opera , had the mortifi- cation to fee it again rejected . In the laft year of queen Anne's life , Gay was made fecretary to the earl of Clarendon , ambaffador to the court of Hanover . This was a ftation that na- turally gave ...
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... Beggar's Opera . This play , written in ridicule of the mufical Italian Drama , was first offered to Cibber and his brethren at Drury - Lane , and rejected ; it being then carried to Rich , had the effect , as was ludicroufly faid , of ...
... Beggar's Opera . This play , written in ridicule of the mufical Italian Drama , was first offered to Cibber and his brethren at Drury - Lane , and rejected ; it being then carried to Rich , had the effect , as was ludicroufly faid , of ...
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... Beggar's Opera the gangs of robbers were evi- dently multiplied . Both thefe decifions are furely exag- gerated . The play , like many others ,. was plainly written only to divert , with- out any moral purpose , and is therefore not ...
... Beggar's Opera the gangs of robbers were evi- dently multiplied . Both thefe decifions are furely exag- gerated . The play , like many others ,. was plainly written only to divert , with- out any moral purpose , and is therefore not ...
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