 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 σελίδες
...pretty sort of thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to ' The Beggar's Opera.' He began on it, and when he first mentioned... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 σελίδες
...Newgate Pastoral might make. ' Gay,' says Mr. Pope, ' was inclined to try at such a thing for some time, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's Opera. He began on it, and when first he mentioned... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - 1876 - 340 σελίδες
...an odd, pretty sort of thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera. As he carried it on he showed what he wrote... | |
 | 1877 - 564 σελίδες
...what an odd pretty thing; a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try such a thing for some time, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to " The Beggar's Opera." He began on it ; and, when he first mentioned... | |
 | Belgravia - 1877 - 696 σελίδες
...what an odd pretty thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try such a thing for some time, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to " The Beggar's Opera." He began on it ; and, when he first mentioned... | |
 | 1877 - 730 σελίδες
...what an odd pretty thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try such a thing for some time, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to " The Beggar's Opera." He began on it ; and, when he first mentioned... | |
 | John Diprose - 1878 - 336 σελίδες
...thing a Newgate pastoral might make I "Gay," says Pope, " was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera. He began on it ; and when he first mentioned... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1882 - 492 σελίδες
...but he wns not able to carry out hia plan. Mr. Pope, " was inclined to try at such a thing for some time, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to ' The Beggar's Opera.' He began on it ; and when first he mentioned... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 σελίδες
...pretty sort of thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the ' licggar's Opera.' He began on it, and when he first mentioned... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 σελίδες
...make her a of thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time, but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera. He began on it, and when he first mentioned... | |
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Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This... 
