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Sarah Siddons as Euphrasia in The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy.

Identifier: britishtheatre_p04bell (find matches)
Title: British theatre
Year: 1791 (1790s)
Authors: Bell, John, 1745-1831
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Publisher: London : J. Bell
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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horned cattle were in piteous taking,At fornication, rapes, and cuckold-making.The tigers swore, he wanted fire and passion ; The apes condemned because it was the fashion. The generous steeds allow^d him proper merit: Here marked his faults, and there approved his spirit* While brother bards brayed forth with usual spleen, Andy as they heard, exploded every scene. When Reynards thoughts were askd, the shrugging sage, Famdfor hypocrisy, and worn with age, Condemned the shameless licence of the stage. At which the monkey skipped from box to box. And whisperd round the judgment of the fox; Abused the moderns; talked of Rome and Greece; Bilkd evyry box-keeper; and damrfd the piece. Now evry fable has a moral to it — Be churchman, statesman, any thing but poet. In law, or physic, quack in what you will.Cant and grimace conceal the want of skill;Secure in these, his gravity may pass- < ■But here no artifice can hide the ass. THE END. JctT- Tmje &m e € iaw Bat ght ek , .fccae^
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ionODa.lViijtcil lurJ.J.cJl.J.nlillir.iI.nuyStr.iu.l .NHivn) i-qi THE GRECIAN DAUGHTER, A TRAGEDY,By ARTHUR MURPHY, Esq. ADAPTED FOR THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION, AS PERFORMED AT THE THEATRES-ROYAL,DRURY-LANE AND C OV£ NT-GARDEN, .UlEgULATED FROM THE PROMPT-BOOKS,By Permission of the Managers* The Lines distinguished by inverted Commas, are omitted in the Representation. LONDON: Printed far the PrcprietorSi under the Direction of John Bell, IStiHe^^ibist^i Strand,Bookseller toHis Royal Highness the PRiKCEof Wales. Jvl DCC XCII. JV PROLOGUE. Ive treated for this play; can buy it too,If 1 could learn what you intend to do.If for nine nights you 11 bear this tragic stuff,* / have a newspaper, and there can puff. A newspaper does wonders ! none can beIn debty in love, dependent, or quite free,tfgly or handsome, well, or ill in bed,Si?ig!e or married, or alive or deed,But we give life, death, virtue, vice with case ;In short a newspaper does what we please.There jealous aulhoi s at each othe

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