Epilogue
fter so lengthy and detailed an account of the maturity and opera-
the theatres of London during the tilird quarter of the eighteenth
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one might fairly ask for a summary comment on the stage, as it
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life of the period. The voice of;
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justly appraise the matter than I who write so long
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of the English theatre consists of a prelude of music, a play,
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of the ,,:::'11ary seems to bear the smug tone of an annual report on the state
otion, it still summarizes the facts. The final point to make is tltat
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