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Excerpt from Annals of the English Stage or Their Majesties Servants, Vol. 1IT is unnecessary to apologise for a new edition of Dr. Doran's Annals of the Stage. The two editions already published have been for many years out of print, and the first is so rare that copies of it bring a high price whenever they occur for sale. And this demand is not a mere bibliographical accident, for the book has held for many years a recognised posi tion as t...

Excerpt from Their Majesties Servants, or Annals of the English Stage, From Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean: Actors, Authors, AudiencesAN obscure Latin passage in an ancient chronicler of London, leaves it uncertain whether, under the Norman kings, the metro polis possessed anything like a scenic entertainment, or only contrivances in place of scenes. However this may have been, it is certain that one of our earliest theatres, had Geoffrey, a ...

Excerpt from Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, Vol. 1The guest of Polycrates, who ran away from his host because he was for ever fortunate, was like one of those critics, of the Jeremy Collier school, who cannot witness a modest success without, to speak metaphorically, trying to slit the nose of the author. For my own part, I have little reason to complain, my task is rather to be grateful, and I take the opportunity of ...

Excerpt from Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, Vol. 2 of 3The queen's in¿uence was ever stronger than the favourite's credit. Except a barony, a red riband, and a good place for her brother, Sir John Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lady Suffolk could succeed but in very subordinate recommendations. Her own acquisitions were so moderate, that, besides Marble Hill, which cost the king ten or twelve thousand pounds, her com...

Excerpt from A Lady of the Last CenturyIn a note to the letters published by Mr. Mon tagu, the editor states that they are intended to convey in them the biography of the writer, which the editor thinks he could not so well exemplify by any remarks of his own as by the letters themselves. Mr. Montagu gave to his aunt's readers every word of every epistle, from the salutation to the signature.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundred...

Excerpt from In and About Drury Lane, Vol. 2 of 2: And Other Papers, Reprinted From the Pages of the Temple Bar MagazineBut for Pepys and Evelyn we should know but little of the social life of the seventeenth century. A host of letter writers - Walpole, Mrs. Delany, and Mrs. Montagu, at the head of them - may be said to have photographed the next century for us. Lord Malmesbury, Lord Auckland, and some others succeeded, and now we are beginnin...

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Their Majesties Servants - Annals of the English Stage is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques onl...

Excerpt from London in the Jacobite Times, Vol. 1 of 2Burnet gave him hope. A good time, he said, was coming. The queen was mortally ill. Burnet was then, he said, on his way from Clerkenwell to the Court, and he undertook to send a messenger to Bradbury, to let him know how it fared with Anne. If he were in his Chapel, a token should tell him that the queen was dead.A few hours later, Bradbury was half-way through his sermon, when he saw a ha...

Memories of our Great Towns is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publish...

Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the Town and Borough of Reading in Berkshire: With Some Notices of the Most Considerable Places in the Same CountyThe daughter, wife, the mother eke, of Henrie, Iieth heere, Much blest by birth, by marriage more, but most by issue deere.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an imp...

Excerpt from The History and Antiquities of the Town and Borough of Reading in Berkshire: With Some Notices of the Most Considerable Places in the Same CountyThe daughter, wife, the mother eke, of Henrie, Iieth heere, Much blest by birth, by marriage more, but most by issue deere.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an imp...

Excerpt from Saints and Sinners, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, in Church and About ItIn those old days an abbot was a princely person, especially reverenced, and scrupulously obeyed. When he passed by, all inferior brethren rose and saluted their chief. At night it was no less a person than his own chaplain who carried the lantern before him No one could walk by his side except to mass, and no man ever dared sit by the side of a lord abbot without in vitat...

Excerpt from Memories of Our Great Towns: With Anecdotic Gleanings Concerning Their Worthies and Their Oddities, 1860-1877Dr. Doran's last book demands a word of introduction. For fourteen years the genial Author carried on in the pages of the Athenaeum that charming series of papers Which dealt annually With the locality selected for the approaching meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Last year, With the kind co...

Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as an...

Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as an...

Knights and Their Days is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes t...

Annals of the English Stage - Vol. II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1865. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks ne...

Annals of the English Stage - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1865. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks new...

Mann' and manners at the court of Florence - 1740-1786. Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1876. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as ant...