 Of the subsequent success of this lucky comedy there is no occasion for me to speak ; eight and twenty successive nights it went without the buttress of an afterpiece, which was not then the practice of attaching to a new play. Such was the good fortune...  La Belle Assemblée - Sida 261806Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1806 - 310 sidor
...iuh» tote up aloft. o 2 Of the subsequent success of this lucky comedy there is no occasion for me to speak ; eight and twenty successive nights it went...attaching to a new play. Such was the good fortune of ;m author, who happened to strike upon a popular and taking plan, for certainly the moral of The West-Indian... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 sidor
...TO/JO sate ufi aloft. Of the subsequent success of this lucky comedy there is no occasion for me to speak ; eight and twenty successive nights it went...attaching to a new play. Such was the good fortune of au author, who happened 6 to strike upon a popular and taking plan, for certainly the moral of the... | |
 | 1806 - 554 sidor
...fuccefs, " ran. eight and twenty fucceffive nights, without the buttrefs of an after-piece, which it was not then the practice of attaching to a new play....was the good fortune of an author who happened to (trike upon a popular and taking plan." Fairing over the circumftances of the defence of the memory... | |
 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 sidor
...unfrequent on the stage) secured its popularity, though, as the author himself acknowledges, " its moral is not quite unexceptionable, neither is the dialogue...others of the same author which have been much less favoured." Bishop Lowth having in a warm controversy with bishop Warburton incidently made a severe... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 260 sidor
...success, " ran eight and twenty successive nights, without the buttress of an after-piece, which it was not then the practice of attaching to a new play....happened to strike upon a popular and taking plan." His fourth comedy, ' The Choleric Man,' " was a successful play in its time, though it has not been... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 406 sidor
...without the buttress of an afterpiece, which was not then the practice of attaching to a new play.1 Such was the good fortune of an author, who happened...others of the same author, which have been, much less favored. The snarlers snapped at it, but they never 1 This is a mistake, which Cumberland has corrected... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 sidor
...champions, who sat up aloft. Of the subsequent success of this lucky comedy there is no occasion for me to speak ; eight and twenty successive nights it went...which was not then the practice of attaching to a new play.1 Such was the good fortune of an author, who happened to strike upon a popular and taking plan,... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 sidor
...champions, who sat up aloft. Of the subsequent success of this lucky comedy there is no occasion for me to speak ; eight and twenty successive nights it went...which was not then the practice of attaching to a new play.1 Such was the good fortune of an author, who happened to strike upon a popular and taking plan,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1863 - 912 sidor
...success, " ran eight and twenty successive nights, without the buttress of an after-piece, which it was not then the practice of attaching to a new play....happened to strike upon a popular and taking plan." His fourth comedy, ' The Choleric Man,' "was a successful play in its time, though it has not been... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1909 - 440 sidor
...champions, who sate tip aloft. Of the subsequent success of this lucky comedy there is no occasion for me to speak ; eight and twenty successive nights it went...popular and taking plan, for certainly the moral of the West-Indian is not quite unexceptionable, neither is the dialogue above the level of others of the... | |
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