A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698)
Series Three: Essays on the Stage No. 1 A LETTER TO A.H. ESQ; CONCERNING THE STAGE (1698) and THE OCCASIONAL PAPER: NO. IX (1698) With an Introduction by H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. The Augustan Reprint Society September, 1946 Price: 75c Membership in the Augustan Reprint Society entitles the subscriber to six publications issued each year. The annual membership fee is $2.50. Address subscriptions and communications to The Augustan Reprint
In the robes of a Papal Chamberlain.]
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1916
PREFACE
This book was begun with no hope or intention of making a formal and
finished biography, but only to place on record some of my brother's
sayings and doings, to fix scenes and memories before they suffered from
any dim obliteration of time, to catch, if I could, for my own comfort
and delight, the tone and sense of that vivid and animated atmosphere
which Hugh always created about him. His arrival upon any scene was
never in the smallest degree uproarious, and still less was it in the
least mild or serene; yet he came into a settled circle like a freshet
of tumbling water into a still pool!
I knew all along that I could not attempt any account of what may be
Series Three: Essays on the Stage No. 1 A LETTER TO A.H. ESQ; CONCERNING THE STAGE (1698) and THE OCCASIONAL PAPER: NO. IX (1698) With an Introduction by H. T. Swedenberg, Jr. The Augustan Reprint Society September, 1946 Price: 75c Membership in the Augustan Reprint Society entitles the subscriber to six publications issued each year. The annual membership fee is $2.50. Address subscriptions and communications to The Augustan Reprint