Cook, Dutton, 1829-1883 · London, S. Low, son, and Marston · leaf 212
ers who lifted up their voicesagainst the startling innovation, and prophesied theapproaching downfall of the drama. If the grandsonspresent marvelled how elder generations could for solong have gone without such useful and necessaryappliances, assuredly the grandsires were complainingthat now… … 202 ART IN ENGLAND. great brother-dramatists, demanded foolish paintingsand idle garniture, that diverted attention from theefforts of the players and the purpose of the play-wrights, and had never been dreamt of, and wouldnever have been tolerated in the good, and simple, andpalmy days gone by.…
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