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The Spectator, Vol. 2 of 8: With Illustrative Notes; To Which Are Prefixed the Lives of the Authors; Comprehending Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Thomas Parnell, John Hughes, Eustace Budgell, Lawrence Eusden, Thomas Tickell, Alexander Pope - Hardcover

 
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Excerpt from The Spectator, Vol. 2 of 8: With Illustrative Notes; To Which Are Prefixed the Lives of the Authors; Comprehending Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Thomas Parnell, John Hughes, Eustace Budgell, Lawrence Eusden, Thomas Tickell, Alexander Pope

Last night, upon my going into a coffee-house not far from the Hay-market theatre, I diverted myself for above half an hour with overbearing the discourse of one, who, by the shabbiness of his dress, the extrava gance of his conception, and the hurry of his speech, I discovered to be of that species who are generally dis tinguished by the title of Projectors. This gentleman, for I found he was treated as such by his audience, was entertaining a whole table of listners with the project of an Opera, which he told us had not cost him above two or three mornings in the contrivance, and which he was ready to put in execution, provided he might find his account in it. He said, that he had Observed the great trouble and inconvenience which ladies were at, in tra velling up and down to the several shows that are exhi bited in different quarters Of the town. The dancing monkies are in one place; the puppet-show in another; the opera in a third; not to mention the lions, that are almost a whole. Day's journey from the politer part Of the_town. By these means people of figure are forced to lose half the Winter after their coming to town, be fore they have seen all the strange sights about it. In order to remedy this great inconvenience, our projector drew out of his pocket the scheme of an Opera, entitled.

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  • Publication date2020
  • ISBN 10 0364143592
  • ISBN 13 9780364143599
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages437

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