The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 Author: Various Editor: S. C. Carpenter Release Date: November 3, 2008 [EBook #27138] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF TASTE, JUNE 1810 *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. [Pg 431] THE MIRROR OF TASTE, AND DRAMATIC CENSOR. Vol. I. JUNE, 1810. No. 6. Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article. Table of contents has been created for the HTML version. Contents HISTORY OF THE STAGE. BIOGRAPHY. LIFE OF WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQ. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. HODGKINSON. MISCELLANY. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DRAMATICUS. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. THE FREE KNIGHTS. ACT I. ACT II. ACT III HISTORY OF THE STAGE. CHAPTER VI. THE ROMAN DRAMA. In proportion as the Romans yielded to the habit of imitating the Greeks, they advanced into refinement, and receded from their characteristic roughness and ferocity.