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Excerpt from A Complete History of the English Stage, Vol. 1: Introduced by a Comparative and Comprehensive Review of the Asiatic, the Grecian, the Roman, the Spanish, the Italian, the Portugese, the Germans, the French, and Other Theaters The molt delightful fountain is the fame by night as by day. Its waters are as pure, as clear, and as delicious; but, though necefiity may, induce us to have recourfe to it in the night, it is in the day alone that the draft is fweetened, through the medium of contemplation, by an idea of that heaven which it (0 beautifully reects. So did man wander in a chaos of truth till the light of fcience taught him how to diltinguifh its beauty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.