The beauties of the English stage: consisting of the most affecting and sentimental passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, &c. in the English plays, ancient and modern. Digested under proper heads in alphabetical order, with the names and dates of the plays and their several authors refer'd to. The third edition, in which the errors of the former editions are corrected, and the collection is continued down to the present year. In three volumes.

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Title The beauties of the English stage: consisting of the most affecting and sentimental passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, &c. in the English plays, ancient and modern. Digested under proper heads in alphabetical order, with the names and dates of the plays and their several authors refer'd to. The third edition, in which the errors of the former editions are corrected, and the collection is continued down to the present year. In three volumes.
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Volumes 3
Pagination I 272, [3]; II 300; III 307, [3]
Date of Publication 1756
Edition Statement The third edition, in which the errors of the former editions are corrected, and the collection is continued down to the present year.
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Date of First Publication 1724
Imprint Printed for E. Withers, at the Seven Stars, against Chancery-Lane, and A. and C. Corbett, at Addison's-Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, both in Fleet-street.
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Notes Originally published in 1724 under the title ’Thesaurus dramaticus’ and later published under the title ’The beauties of the English drama’.
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Unknown. The beauties of the English stage: consisting of the most affecting and sentimental passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, &c. in the English plays, ancient and modern. Digested under proper heads in alphabetical order, with the names and dates of the plays and their several authors refer'd to. The third edition, in which the errors of the former editions are corrected, and the collection is continued down to the present year. In three volumes.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 14596, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/14596. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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