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Ajter the publisher was unable to place Street Scene in European opera houses.

| January 19, 2012

 I have some more interesting ideas for shows. One of them is to do a musical based on “It happened one night.” I am seeing Leland Hayward tomorrow to find out if he can get the rights for me. Also I havent given up my idea of an Oedipus opera for Robesoneven if Max doesnt [...]

The effect then which is produced on tho lower orders of society.

| January 6, 2012

For a lime, loo, this answers; and Ihe artisan shares in the conveniencies io which his labours have contributed lo give birth : but il is in the very nature of the manufacturing system to be liable to greatlluctuation, occasional check, and  ossible destruction; and, at all events, it has a tendency lo produce a [...]

The glory of producing an imperishable record of that great conflict seems to be reserved for Colonel Napier.

| December 29, 2011

The Laureat Odes, indeed, among which the Vision of Judgment must be classed, are, for Ihe most part, worse than Pye’s, and as bad as Cibber’s; nor do we think him generally happy in short pieces. But his longer poems, though full of faults, are nevertheless very extraordinary productions. We doubt greatly whether they will [...]

Thus, while civil Liberty is more and more secured to us.

| December 27, 2011

Again, wilh respect to our Moral condition : here also, he who runs masread that the same physical, mechanical influences, are everywhere busy. For the “superior morality,” of which we hear so much, we, too, would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this “superior morality” is [...]

I would by no means look up to the stars.

| December 25, 2011

 The mention of the ribs will bring on one observation more; that although the breast is encompassed with ribs, the belly is left free ; this is, that it may give way to the motion of the midriff Considering the mean and vile fables of the pagan poetry, yea, and the scandalous actions of some [...]

I stammered something about the pleasure I felt in seeing her again.

| December 20, 2011

My eye had been caught by a gun with a brassbound stock over the chimneypiece, and his eye had followed mine.”Well,” said I, not desirous of more conversation, “shall I go up to Miss Havisham?””Burn me, if I know!” he retorted, first stretching himself and then shaking himself; “my orders ends here, young master. I [...]

They allowed a very liberal table to Mr. and Mrs. Pocket.

| December 18, 2011

I indicated in what direction the mist had shrouded the other man, and he looked up at it for an instant. But he was down on the rank wet grass, filing at his iron like a madman, and not minding me or minding his own leg, which had an old chafe upon it and was [...]

Then the theatre is open for nothing.

| December 8, 2011

Then from all the towns of the Duchy, which stretches for nearly ten milefrom Bolkum, which lies on its western frontier bidding defiance to Prussia, from Grogwitz, where the Prince has a huntinglodge, and where his dominions are separated by the Pump River from those of the neighbouring Prince of Potzenthal; from all the little [...]

Who were the only persons in the whole parish exempted from the labours of the field.

| November 29, 2011

Psalms, and the Litanies of all the Saints, all had their set prices. Some of these penances were of a still more formidable nature, and then the reward was proportionable ; the following are some of them :Thf: penitent to hear three successive masses in the church of the Jesuits, bare knee’d on the marble [...]

Morgan determines on revenge: at this fatal period arrives James Gray.

| November 24, 2011

Harris, on his defence, endeavoured to invalidate the charge by assertions, that the whole of Morgan’s evidence was false ; that the money which he buried was his own property, honestly come by, and buried there for his better security ; and that his behaviour before the magistrate on this particular, arose from the shame [...]

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