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Excerpt from False Delicacy: A Comedy, Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, Regulated From the Prompt-Book, by Permission of the ManagerMarchmont, as I should now be reducd to the pain ful alternative, either of giving up my own hopes, or of opposing the happiness of such a friend.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

Excerpt from The School for Wives: A Comedy in Five ActsMrs. T. I don't know that you would be brought upon the stage, but I am sure you were near being brought upon the town. Hope, madam, for the future, you'll set me down a mad Woman.Mrs. B. Mr. Belville, you ll make my apologies to this lady, and acknowledge that I think her perfectly in her senses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

Excerpt from Thespis, or a Critical Examination Into the Merits of All the Principal Performers Belonging to Drury-Lane TheatreHigh as the town, with reverence we may name, And fiamp its general fentiments to fame, Loud, as, perhaps, we eccho to its voice, And pay a boundlefs homage to its choice, Still, if we look, minutely, we {hall find Each fingle judge fo impotent or blind, That ev'n the actor whom we molt admire, For eale or humour, dign...

Excerpt from The School for Wives: A Comedy as It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-LaneIt would be ungrateful initihe highe¿ degree to clofe this preface, without acknowledging the very great obligations which the author has to Mr: Garrick. Every attehtioh, which either as a ma nager, or as a man, he could give to the interell of the following play, he has bellowed w1th the mofl: generous alacrity, b'ut unive'rfally'admired asibe is ...

Excerpt from The Babler, Vol. 2: Containing a Careful Selection From Those Entertaining and Interesting Essays, Which Have Given the Public So Much Satisfaction Under That Title During a Course of Four Years, in Owen's Weekly ChronicleLXXXIX. The misfortune of a young Lady grown up to years of difcretion, in having too juvenile a Father, exemplified in the fituation of Mifa hortensia Msnmco'rs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundr...

Excerpt from The School for Wives: ComedyTn: author of the following performance cannot commit it so the press, without acknowledging the deepest sense of gra titude, fine the uncommon marks of approbation with which he has been honoured by the public.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgo...

Excerpt from The Babler, Vol. 1: Containing a Careful Selection From Those Entertaining and Interesting Essays, Which Have Given the Public So Much Satisfaction Under That Title During a Course of Four Years, in Owen's Weekly ChronicleOf the public, and have been often happy enough to go through half a dozen editions, in half the number of days.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from The Babler, Vol. 1: Containing a Careful Selection From Those Entertaining and Interesting Essays, Which Have Given the Public So Much Satisfaction Under That Title During a Course of Four Years, in Owen's Weekly ChronicleOf the public, and have been often happy enough to go through half a dozen editions, in half the number of days.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from Memoirs of a Magdalen, or the History of Louisa Mildmay, Vol. 2 of 2: Now First Published From a Series of Original LettersWounded by that barbarous villain Harold, with whom he accidentally met at the Crown in Reading and there, with more courage than difcretion called to. An account for his infamous be haviour to the moll: beautiful and molt worthy of her fex. Fillols were the cured weapons they fought with, and your brother rec...

Excerpt from Memoirs of a Magdalen, or the History of Louisa Mildmay, Vol. 2 of 2: Now First Published From a Series of Original LettersWounded by that barbarous villain Harold, with whom he accidentally met at the Crown in Reading and there, with more courage than difcretion called to. An account for his infamous be haviour to the moll: beautiful and molt worthy of her fex. Fillols were the cured weapons they fought with, and your brother rec...

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The School for Wives - A Comedy is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1775. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly pu...

Excerpt from A Word to the Wise: A Comedy, as It Was Performed at the Theatre Royal, in Drury-Lane Whetherithas been Mr. Kelly' s merit or demerit, to think from principle unpopularly, on the fubjett of the prefent nu happy diffenfions, he will not pretend to fay, but certainly 1t has been his misfortune, and though feveral ofhis difcreeter friends repeatedly warned himi'of the danger his next piece would run on the' hage, from an Open declar...

False Delicacy - A Comedy Adapted for Theatrical Representation is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1795. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as an...

Excerpt from The Babler, Vol. 2: Containing a Careful Selection From Those Entertaining and Interesting Essays, Which Have Given the Public So Much Satisfaction Under That Title During a Course of Four Years, in Owen's Weekly Chronicle We find him to the good of his country, the more we fee him wedded to his gin and tobacco, while on the contrary, the higher we go among confe quenco and coronets, the higher encouragement we (hall find given t...

bTitle:/b The Romance of an Hour. A comedy of two acts [in prose].br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 m...

bTitle:/b False Delicacy, a comedy [in five acts and in prose], etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14...

bTitle:/b Thespis: or, a critical examination [in verse] into the merits of all the principal performers belonging to Drury Lane Theatre. The second edition, with corrections and additions. (Thespis: or a critical examination into the merits of all the principal performers belonging to Covent-Garden Theatre.).br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. I...

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