| Thomas Davies - 1781 - 556 pages
...Congreve, &c. give no encouragement to new compeiitions. " The manager," fays he, -. VOL. I. R " whether " whether player or harlequin, muft be the fole pivot...on the profit of the night in old plays > and any acceis of reputation to a dead author carries no impertinent claims and invidious diftinilions along... | |
| Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 pages
...whether player or harlequin, must be the sole pivot on which the whole machine is both to move and rest ; there is no drawback on the profit of the night in old plays ; and any access of reputation to a dead author carries no impertinent claims and invidious distinctions along... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...player or ' harlequin, must be the sole pivot on which the whole ' machine is both to move and rest ; there is no drawback ' on the profit of the night in old plays ; and any access ' of reputation to a dead author, carries no impertinent ' claims and invidious distinctions... | |
| Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...player or ' harlequin, must be the sole pivot on which the whole ' machine is both to move and rest ; there is no drawback ' on the profit of the night in old plays ; and any access ' of reputation to a dead author, carries no impertinent ' claims and invidious distinctions... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...player or ' harlequin, must be the sole pivot on which the whole ' machine is both to move and rest ; there is no drawback ' on the profit of the night in old plays ; and any access ' of reputation to a dead author, carries no impertinent ' claims and invidious distinctions... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...to move and rest ; there is no drawback ' on the profit of the night in old plays ; and any access ' of reputation to a dead author, carries no impertinent ' claims and invidious distinctions along with it. When ' the playhouse is named,' he added bitterly, ' I make it a ' point... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...player or harlequin, must " be the sole pivot on which the whole machine is both to " move and rest ; there is no drawback on the profit of the " night in old plays ; and any access of reputation to a dead " author, carries no impertinent claims and invidious dis" tinctions... | |
| Henry Saxe Wyndham - 1906 - 454 pages
...whether player or harlequin, must be the sole pivot on which the whole machine is both to move and rest ; there is no drawback on the profit of the night in old plays ; and any access of reputation to a dead author, carries no impertinent claims along with it" Goldsmith, on his... | |
| Alwin Thaler - 1922 - 450 pages
...so long disgrac'd us. ... Even the Bookseller is a Perfect Maecenas compar'd to the Manager. . . . There is no drawback on the Profit of the Night in old Plays . . . Hence the Preparatives from Season to Season so artfully laid, to keep the Relish of these stale... | |
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