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" The manager,' he continues, admitting the whole question at issue in his complaints, '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... "
Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick: Interspersed with Characters and ... - Page 233
by Thomas Davies - 1780
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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq: Interspersed with ..., Volume 1

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...
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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq: Interspersed with ..., Volume 1

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...
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

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...
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Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

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...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Volume 1

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...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Part 2

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...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1

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...
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The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897, Volume 1

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...
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Shakspere to Sheridan: A Book about the Theatre of Yesterday and To-day

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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