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... Plays have been well received by the English public , and favorably reviewed in the leading journals of London , among others by the New Quarterly , Church of England Quarterly , Athenæum , & c . We may like- wise refer to the ...
... Plays have been well received by the English public , and favorably reviewed in the leading journals of London , among others by the New Quarterly , Church of England Quarterly , Athenæum , & c . We may like- wise refer to the ...
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... ; but we do not think this at all a valid reason . A careless or incompetent dramatist might charge the tediousness or irrelevant nature of his writing upon the established custom of a Play having JAMES FENIMORE 15 COOPER .
... ; but we do not think this at all a valid reason . A careless or incompetent dramatist might charge the tediousness or irrelevant nature of his writing upon the established custom of a Play having JAMES FENIMORE 15 COOPER .
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Thomas Powell. his writing upon the established custom of a Play having Five Acts . Every Romance and every Drama has a natural length , and the true artist never need write a superfluous word ; symmetry is the truest beauty , and , like ...
Thomas Powell. his writing upon the established custom of a Play having Five Acts . Every Romance and every Drama has a natural length , and the true artist never need write a superfluous word ; symmetry is the truest beauty , and , like ...
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... play- wrights may be made out of a clever selecter of theatrical situations . It not unfrequently occurs that a good acting play is far from a natural representation , and sometimes it may be diametrically opposed to nature . Whenever a ...
... play- wrights may be made out of a clever selecter of theatrical situations . It not unfrequently occurs that a good acting play is far from a natural representation , and sometimes it may be diametrically opposed to nature . Whenever a ...
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... play Would bankrupt nature to repay . " A mere versifier would have made those images into a hundred lines ; the true poet condenses ; the elegant writer diffuses , till it becomes an atmosphere rather than a world . The conclusion of ...
... play Would bankrupt nature to repay . " A mere versifier would have made those images into a hundred lines ; the true poet condenses ; the elegant writer diffuses , till it becomes an atmosphere rather than a world . The conclusion of ...
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