puppet show

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For among his Latin poems in the Oxford 'Musæ Anglicanæ' are eighty or ninety lines of resonant Latin verse upon 'Machinæ Gesticulantes, 'anglice' A Puppet-show.'

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

If they cannot forbear the Play-house, I would recommend Tragedy to them, rather than Comedy; and should think the Puppet-show much safer for them than the Opera, all the while the Sun is in Gemini.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

It is the same that is quoted in the chapter of the Puppet-show in Don Quixote.

From Mediaeval Tales by Morley, Henry

Puppet-show of Life, the, from the German of Schiller, 150.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

Lysander slain at a Puppet-show on the third of September.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph