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Plays by American Dramatists, by Various
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Title: Representative Plays by American Dramatists 1765-1819
Author: Various
Editor: Montrose J. Moses
Release Date: June 26, 2009 [EBook #29221]
Language: English
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[Illustration: THE
CONTRAST,
A
COMEDY;
IN FIVE ACTS:
WRITTEN BY A
CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES;
Performed with Applause at the Theatres in NEW-YORK, PHILADELPHIA, and MARYLAND;
AND PUBLISHED (under an Assignment of the Copy-Right) BY
THOMAS WIGNELL.
Primus ego in patriam Aonio----deduxi vertice Musas.
VIRGIL.
(Imitated.)
First on our shores I try THALIA'S powers, And bid the laughing, useful Maid be ours.
PHILADELPHIA:
FROM THE PRESS OF PRICHARD & HALL, IN MARKET STREET, BETWEEN SECOND
Representative Plays by American Dramatists
by Montrose J. Moses