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| | Richard Sheridan's 'The Duenna' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Although "The Duenna's" highest claim to notice, depends, now, upon the reputation of its author, yet the author was first indebted to "The Duenna" for the honour of ranking among poets, and of receiving from the fashionable world all those animating caresses, so dear to a poet's heart. |
 | | This opera was brought upon the stage in 1775, and during that, and many following years, dellighted the dramatic world; still the author did not receive undivided praise for its success: - Musicians had their share, and certain singers of the most forcible attraction. |
 | | Margaret, the Duenna, has some resemblance to Bickerstaff's Ursula - but little Isaac, the Jew, seems to be a character wholly original; and notwithstanding, there is great humour in him, there is, at the same time, infinite instruction. |
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