A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present DayJ.C. Nimmo, 1888 - 384 pàgines |
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A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest ... Robert William Lowe Visualització completa - 1888 |
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Pàgina 380 - THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. Translated from the Spanish of MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA by MOTTEUX.
Pàgina 378 - Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain.
Pàgina 48 - A Letter from Mr. Gibber to Mr. Pope, Inquiring into the Motives that might induce him in his Satyrical Works, to be frequently fond of Mr. Cibber's Name.
Pàgina 49 - Another Occasional Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, wherein The New Hero's Preferment to his Throne in the Dunciad, seems not to be Accepted. And the Author of that Poem, His more Rightful Claim to it is Asserted. With an Expostulatory Address to the Rev. Mr. W. W — n, Author of the new Preface, and Adviser in the curious Improvements of that Satire.
Pàgina 20 - The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, The Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein The Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are distinctly consider'd.
Pàgina 369 - REYNARD THE Fox. AFTER THE GERMAN VERSION OF GOETHE. By THOMAS JAMES ARNOLD, Esq. With Sixty Illustrations from the Designs of WILHELM VON KAULBACH, and Twelve India Proof Steel Engravings by JOSEPH WOLF.
Pàgina 15 - A SERIOUS remonstrance in behalf of the Christian religion, against the horrid blasphemies and impieties which are still used in the English play-houses, to the great dishonour of Almighty God, and in contempt of the statutes of this realm.
Pàgina 379 - At first sight it would seem that material could never be found to fill even a volume; but the author, in dealing with his first subject alone, 'The Sunshade,' says he could easily have filled a dozen volumes of this emblem of sovereignty. The work is delightfully illustrated in a novel manner by Paul Avril, the pictures which meander about the work being printed in varied colours.
Pàgina 299 - An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, for The utter suppression and abolishing of all Stage-Playes and Interludes. With the Penalties to be inflicted upon the Actors and Spectators herein exprest.
Pàgina 223 - Together with an exact and perfect catalogue of all the playes, with the authors names, and what are Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Pastoralls, Masks, Interludes, more exactly printed than ever before.