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Page 71
... scene- shifters are set to work , and in due time the play - bills announce that " speedily will be produced , with new scenes , dresses , and decorations , a Melo - drame , which has been in preparation all the summer . " The newspaper ...
... scene- shifters are set to work , and in due time the play - bills announce that " speedily will be produced , with new scenes , dresses , and decorations , a Melo - drame , which has been in preparation all the summer . " The newspaper ...
Page 74
... scenes she has taken up her residence ; sometimes , tho ' very rarely , in a palace , often in a cottage ; the philosopher's cave of retirement , and the soldier's tent amidst the noise and danger of war , are by turns her habitation ...
... scenes she has taken up her residence ; sometimes , tho ' very rarely , in a palace , often in a cottage ; the philosopher's cave of retirement , and the soldier's tent amidst the noise and danger of war , are by turns her habitation ...
Page 78
... scene with Imoinda , were inimitably beautiful . As to Miss SOMERVILLE she looked as she could " break her fast , dine , sup , and sleep upon the naked name of love , " and if this was not quite all that the author designed it was ...
... scene with Imoinda , were inimitably beautiful . As to Miss SOMERVILLE she looked as she could " break her fast , dine , sup , and sleep upon the naked name of love , " and if this was not quite all that the author designed it was ...
Page 87
... scene of greater poverty and wretchedness , thank God , it has been seldom my fate to witness . In mak ing this declaration , I wish my readers to understand , that I am not alluding to those scenes of extreme wretchedness , where vice ...
... scene of greater poverty and wretchedness , thank God , it has been seldom my fate to witness . In mak ing this declaration , I wish my readers to understand , that I am not alluding to those scenes of extreme wretchedness , where vice ...
Page 101
... scene recruits My spirits , worn in learning's long pursuits ; Whether some senior shrewd , or spendthrift heir , Sailor , or soldier , now unarm'd , be there , Or some coif'd brooder o'er a ten - years ' cause Thunder the Norman gibb ...
... scene recruits My spirits , worn in learning's long pursuits ; Whether some senior shrewd , or spendthrift heir , Sailor , or soldier , now unarm'd , be there , Or some coif'd brooder o'er a ten - years ' cause Thunder the Norman gibb ...
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