The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographana. Account of Rare and Curious Books and of the Book Sales in this Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited ... V. 1-2: Jan. 24-July 4, 1807, Band 2Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 |
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... stage , and poets wrote to please the taste of the Court , This led to a nearer imitation of the French drama than had been usual . He stated the particulars in which this imitation appeared ; and next he animadverted on the indecency ...
... stage , and poets wrote to please the taste of the Court , This led to a nearer imitation of the French drama than had been usual . He stated the particulars in which this imitation appeared ; and next he animadverted on the indecency ...
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... Stage : ' not long after which the Tatler and Spectator contributed to improve the taste of the age . He observed that from this time our tragic authors wrote with more caution , and paid a stricter attention to the rules of criticism ...
... Stage : ' not long after which the Tatler and Spectator contributed to improve the taste of the age . He observed that from this time our tragic authors wrote with more caution , and paid a stricter attention to the rules of criticism ...
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... stage were then treated of ; and the arguments were stated , which have been alleged to arraign , or to de- fend , such a practice . The Lecturer no- ticed a similar mixture of the grave and ludicrous in certain historical paintings ...
... stage were then treated of ; and the arguments were stated , which have been alleged to arraign , or to de- fend , such a practice . The Lecturer no- ticed a similar mixture of the grave and ludicrous in certain historical paintings ...
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... stage , of being , at the same time , merry and wise ; and whether Wit and Mirth may not , by some contrivance or other , be made consistent with honesty and virtue ; and the stage be thereby made , instead of an academy for vice , a ...
... stage , of being , at the same time , merry and wise ; and whether Wit and Mirth may not , by some contrivance or other , be made consistent with honesty and virtue ; and the stage be thereby made , instead of an academy for vice , a ...
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... Stage . I therefore send you a word of caution , not to burn your fin- gers with any such subjects ; for if you meddle with them , depend upon it you will find yourself in the wrong box . When that ease and freedom of conduct , which ...
... Stage . I therefore send you a word of caution , not to burn your fin- gers with any such subjects ; for if you meddle with them , depend upon it you will find yourself in the wrong box . When that ease and freedom of conduct , which ...
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