The History of the Scottish Stage: From Its First Establishment to the Present Time; ... The Whole Necessarily Interspersed with Memoirs of His Own Life, by John Jackson, ...

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Peter Hill, and G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1793 - 486

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Strona 24 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, th' important day ?
Strona 351 - It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
Strona 324 - Oh, thou all-righteous and eternal King, Who father of the fatherless art call'd, Protect my son ! Thy inspiration, Lord ! Hath fill'd his bosom with that sacred fire, Which in the breasts of his forefathers burn'd ! Set him on high like them, that he may shine, The star and glory of his native land ! Then let the minister of death descend, And bear my willing spirit to it's place.
Strona 101 - Methodift teacher, who held forth in that city, told his auditors, that he dreamed, the preceding night, he was in the infernal regions, at a grand entertainment, where all the Devils in Hell were prefent, when Lucifer, their chief, gave for a toaft, the health of Mr. , who had fold his ground to build him a houfe upon (meaning the theatre), and which was to be opened the next day for them all to reign in.
Strona 6 - ... a play and declaration of divers storyes of the Bible, beginning with the creation and fall of Lucifer, and ending with the generall judgment of the world, to be declared and played in the Whitsome weeke, was devised and made by one Sr.
Strona 399 - I think it is not enough barely to pay those whose talents are superior to our own (I mean such talents as would become our condition, if we had them). Methinks we ought to do something more than barely gratify them for what they do at our command, only because their fortune is below us.
Strona 302 - June, one thousand, seven hundred and thirty seven, every person who shall, for hire, gain or reward, act, represent or perform, or cause to be acted, represented or performed any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage, or any part or parts therein...
Strona 301 - Act further empowered, before sending such persons to their place of birth or settlement, to cause them " to be stripped naked from the middle, and openly whipped until his or her body be bloody, or else to send them to the house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour.
Strona 327 - Upon the brink she stood, and cast her eyes Down on the deep : then lifting up her head And her white hands to Heaven, seeming to say, Why am I forc'd to this > she plung'd herself Into the empty air.

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