 | Pickering & Chatto - 1659 - 104 pages
...say sixty-two days) . . . and renew'd the next season with equal applauses. It spread into all tlie great towns of England, was play'd in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time, ait Bath and Bristol fifty, etc. It made its progress into Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, where it was... | |
 | Theophilus Cibber - Poets, English - 1753 - 406 pages
...renewed the next fcafon with equal applaufe. It fpread into all the great towns of England, was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Briflol fifty. It made its progrefs into Wales, Scotland and Ireland, where it was perfonneJ twenty-four... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 264 pages
...tragedy hardly came up to it : Sophocles and Euripides were 1els followed and famous. It was acted in London fixtythree days, uninterrupted ; and renewed...thirtieth and fortieth time, at Bath and Briftol fifty, etc. It mad.; its progrefs into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, wliere it was performed twenty-four days... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 388 pages
...author " only feems to lament, that he was employed in Tranfla" tion at all." REMARKS. land, was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time, at Bath and Briftol fifty, &c. It made its progreft into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, where it was performed twenty four days together : It was... | |
 | Biography - 1761 - 536 pages
...and renewed the next feafon with fuccefs, it fpread into all the great towns of England, was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth. time ; at Bath and Briftol fifty, &c. It made it's progrefs into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, where it was performed twentyfour days fucceffively;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1764 - 350 pages
...renewed the next fi.afon with equal applaufes. It ipread into all the great towns in England, was piay'd in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time, at Bath and BriAol fifty, etc. Jt made its p ojrds into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, where it was performed twenty-four... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1770 - 216 pages
...and renewed the next feafon with fuccefs, it fpread into all the great towns of England, was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth, time ; at Bath and Sriflol fifty, .&c. It. made its progrefs into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, where it ..was . pf rfpij^ed... | |
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...applaufe, it '•' fpread into all the great towns of Eng" land; was played »» many places to (f the thirtieth and fortieth time; at? " Bath and Briftol...&c. It made " its progrefs into Wales, Scotland, and f' Ireland, where it; was performed twen" ty-four days fucceflively. The ladies " carried about with... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...the next feafon with "equal applaufe, it fpread into all the great " towns of England ; was played in many places '? to the thirtieth and fortieth time...into " Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, where it was " per" performed twenty-four days fucceffiYely. t( The ladies carried about with them the fa-' *' vourite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...the next feafon with equal appiaufe, it '* fpread into all the great towns of England ; was " played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth " time; at Bath and Briflol fifty, &c. It made its " progrefs into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, where " it was performed... | |
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This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places... 
