http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f140-date%3D1797%3A%3A01%3A%3A18 Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f140-date=1797::01::18 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-01003.xml ON Monday night was performed a Se- rious Drama, interspersed with Songs, cal- led Bourville Castle, or the Gallic Orphan. It is said to be written by a Young Gen- tleman of this City, when not more than sixteen years of age. Whether it was ow- ing to the title or to some other cause, is unknown, but it drew a far more crouded house than generally happens in this City on the first performance of an American production. —Its reception was warm, and flattering—And in fact it justly deserved all the applause that was bestowed upon it. The plot, is simple, but interesting. —The circumstances attending it are supposed to have taken place in the days of comparative rudeness, when Europe had not yet emerg- ed from the gloom of Barbarian ignorance unfold one of those solemn and affecting scenes which so greatly abound in Gothic story. It is the tale of injured innocence & murdered greatness, and is told with great beauty, affecting simplicity, nay often with uncommon, pathos. Not one ... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1797-01003.xml Sun, 18 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT