The Law of the Land, or London in the Last Century

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Excerpt from The Law of the Land, or London in the Last Century: A Drama in Three ActsMy Dear Sir:To you I owe the kindness of having introduced a former Drama of mine upon the stage, to you, therefore, I have the pleasure of inscribing my latest effort, - a poor, though sincerely paid, compliment.The subject, of this piece - that of the life and unhappy end of a celebrated Doctor of Laws - was suggested to me by the proprietor of the Surrey Theatre, and I hesitated for some time ere I attempted to work upon it, - first, because I felt that my limited dramatic experience was not equal to the task, and secondly, because I feared that when finished it would do me little credit on the score of moral taste. The vanity inseparable from authorship, however, overcame the first difficulty, and the other I conquered by referring to the many precedents furnished me by former Dramatists, many of whose plays are founded upon similar events, and which are seldom performed without exercising a powerful and salutary influence over the minds of the audience.That good moral effects are to be wrought upon the mind by stage performances, no one can be better aware of than yourself, who have ever been successful in producing them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.