Excerpt from The Foundling: A Comedy, as It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane IF I defcend, to fay a little of myfelf, I (hall hope for Your GR aces Pardon. This is my firfi Attempt in Dramatic Poetry. Whetheri deferve the Favour, the Town has fhewn me is fubmitted to youi'gr ace 's Candour, and the Judgment ofmy Readers. The Difapprobation, which the Character of Fadd/a met with the firft Night, made it necellary for me to fhorten it in almofl every Scene, where it was nor immediately con ne???ted with the Fab/e ...
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Excerpt from The Foundling: A Comedy, as It Is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane IF I defcend, to fay a little of myfelf, I (hall hope for Your GR aces Pardon. This is my firfi Attempt in Dramatic Poetry. Whetheri deferve the Favour, the Town has fhewn me is fubmitted to youi'gr ace 's Candour, and the Judgment ofmy Readers. The Difapprobation, which the Character of Fadd/a met with the firft Night, made it necellary for me to fhorten it in almofl every Scene, where it was nor immediately con ne???ted with the Fab/e. But tho' Succefs has attended the Alteration, l have ventured to publilh it in its original Drefs, fubmitting it {till to Your grace and the Public, from whom I have no Appeal to my own Parti ality. But I am detaining Your grace too long, and (hall only add, that I am. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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