 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...throne ; besides the inconveniences which the heads of the audiences may sometimes suffer from them. I am credibly informed, that there was once a design...reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him; for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...throne ; besides the inconveniences which the heads of the audiences may sometimes suffer from them. I am credibly informed, that there was once a design...reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him ; for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any... | |
 | 1804 - 676 pages
...besides the inconveniencies which the heads of the audience may sometimes suffer from them. I am eredibly informed, that there was once a design of casting...reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him : for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...throne ; besides the inconveniences which the heads of the audience may sometimes suffer from them. I am credibly informed, that there was once a design...reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him : for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 394 pages
...together a great quantity of mice ; but Mr. Rich, the proprietor of the play-house, very pruderftly considered that it would be impossible for the cat...reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. • Rinaldo, an opera, 8vo. 1711. The plan by Aaron Hill ; the Italian words by Sig. G. Kossi ;..and... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...throne; besides the inconvenieneies which the heads of the audience may sometimes suffer from them. I am credibly informed, that there was once a design...reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him : for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...throne; besides the inconveniencies which the heads of the audience may sometimes suffer from them. I am credibly informed, that there was once a design...reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him : for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...there was once a design of casting into an opera the story of Whittington and his Cat,t and] that m order to it, there had been got together a great quantity...he would not permit it to -be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him : for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 pages
...throne; besides the inconveniences which the heads of the audience may sometimes suffer from them. I am credibly informed, that there was once a design...reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him : for, as he said very well upon that occasion, I do not hear that any... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...of the playhouse.very prudently considered that it would be impossible for the cat to kill them al), e meanwhile T And indeed I cannot blame him for, as he said very well upon that occasion) I do not hear that any... | |
| |
... stage might be as much infested with mice, as the prince of the island was before the cat's arrival upon it; for which reason he would not permit it to be acted in his house. And indeed I cannot blame him : for, as he said very well upon that occasion,... 
