 | William Godwin - 1890 - 168 pages
...the performers is so conspicuous, as to be even at this day a topic of mortification and ridicule. Will it not be practicable hereafter for one man to perform the whole ? Shall we have theatrical exhibitions ? This seems to include an absurd and vicious co-operation.... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...unhappiness. Other forms of collective action were also questionable: 'shall we have concerts of music? . . . Will it not be practicable hereafter for one man to perform the whole?' Similarly, stage plays were inimical to 'individuality', for 'all formal repetition of other men's... | |
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For example: shall we have concerts of music? The miserable state of mechanism of the majority of the performers is so conspicuous, as to be even at this day a topic of mortification and ridicule. Will it not be practicable hereafter for one man to perform... 