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" 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 - Page 26
1806
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Polyanthos, Volume 3

1806 - 310 pages
...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...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 6

Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 500 pages
...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...
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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 50

1806 - 554 pages
...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...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - Biography - 1815 - 506 pages
...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...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 13

Englishmen - 1837 - 260 pages
...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...
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Memoirs of Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 406 pages
...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...
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Memoirs of Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 424 pages
...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,...
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Memoirs of Richard Cumberland

Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 414 pages
...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,...
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The English nation; or, A history of England in the lives of ..., Volume 5

Englishmen - 1863 - 962 pages
...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...
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Father Damien

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1909 - 440 pages
...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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