The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783:
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DATE  LOCATION  CITATION  TEXT INDEX ENTRY 
1768.01.25  Boston  CITATION Why all these gibes, these heats, and cruel fears [fl] 
1772.09.03  Charleston  CITATION Why all this solemn pomp of woe [fl] 
1778.12.07  London  CITATION Why am not I that fragrant flow'r [fl] 
1765.01.11  Portsmouth  CITATION Why are thou, little life, so often crost [fl] 
1764.12.22  Providence  CITATION Why art thou, little life, so often crost [fl] 
1742.12.30  Philadelphia  CITATION Why, Britannia, thus senseless of praise [fl] 
1748.12.28  Annapolis  CITATION Why, Celia, is your spreading waist [fl] 
1775.02.18  Williamsburg  CITATION Why, dearest Nancy, wilt thou tease [fl] 
1773.11.18  Frederick Town  CITATION Why did I leave my cheerful home [fl] 
1765.08.12  New York  CITATION Why do I yield to that suggestion [fl] 
1755.09.22  Falls  CITATION Why do the heathen rage, or why [fl] 
1775.01.26  Norwich  CITATION Why do we fast and hang the head [fl] 
1767.08.13  Williamsburg  CITATION Why do ye grant, ye stoicks, to mankind [fl] 
1769.07.24  Charleston  CITATION Why does my fairest start with wild surprise [fl] 
1775.03.24  Newbern  CITATION Why flow those tears, or why those sighs arise? [fl] 
1775.04.06  Williamsburg  CITATION Why from the moon he dates, if you wou'd learn [fl] 
1779.07.13  New York  CITATION Why hast thou soar'd so high, ambitious muse? [fl] 
1768.05.26  Williamsburg  CITATION Why heaves my bosom with unusual wo? [fl] 
1761.01.26  New York  CITATION Why heaves thy bosom with continual sighs? [fl] 
1749.05.01  Charleston  CITATION Why joyful fireworks only in the park? [fl] 
1768.05.11  London  CITATION Why, let the stricken deer go weep [fl] 
1753.01.15  London  CITATION Why lies that frown upon Belinda's brow? [fl] 
1753.01.15  New York  CITATION Why lies that frown upon Belinda's brow? [fl] 
1779.12.29  New York  CITATION Why mourns my Queen for our young hero's safety [fl] 
1768.06.09  York  CITATION Why mourns the muse? Why heaves the breast with woe? [fl] 
1769.03.23  London  CITATION Why patriots of fame [fl] 
1769.03.28  London  CITATION Why patriots of fame [fl] 
1769.04.01  Providence  CITATION Why patriots of fame [fl] 
1768.10.08  Providence  CITATION Why rage the heathen, and conspire in vain? [fl] 
1775.09.30  Philadelphia  CITATION Why shou'd we of our lot complain [fl] 
1773.01.16  Philadelphia  CITATION Why should frail morals drop the tear or sigh [fl] 
1768.12.26  London  CITATION Why should my fairest shudder with surprise [fl] 
1769.01.13  London  CITATION Why should my fairest shudder with surprize [fl] 
1773.10.07  Boston  CITATION Why should not ev'ry trader sell by auction [fl] 
1740.03.10  New York  CITATION Why should our joys transorm to pain [fl] 
1774.10.20  Norfolk  CITATION Why should the man, whose butter'd bread [fl] 
1743.06.30  Philadelphia  CITATION Why should the nations angry be? [fl] 
1770.01.12  New London  CITATION Why should the visage of the tomb [fl] 
1776.02.02  New London  CITATION Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of [fl] 
1776.02.29  New York  CITATION Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of [fl] 
1776.03.04  Hartford  CITATION Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of [fl] 
1776.03.29  Newburyport  CITATION Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of [fl] 
1776.04.26  Worcester  CITATION Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of [fl] 
1769.03.03  New London  CITATION Why should we that ambition call [fl] 
1769.03.16  New York  CITATION Why should we that ambition call [fl] 
1782.05.08  Chatham  CITATION Why so tim'rous, gentle friend? [fl] 
1759.04.26  Annapolis  CITATION Why start? --the case is yours--or will be soon [fl] 
1776.09.23  Norwich  CITATION Why start! this case will you's be very soon [fl] 
1772.07.21  Charleston  CITATION Why start?--the case is yours--or will be soon [fl] 
1750.03.12  New York  CITATION Why stays my muse when thus she's fir'd [fl] 
1751.11.19  London  CITATION Why still so craving quit the painful strife [fl] 
1752.01.09  London  CITATION Why still so craving? quit the painful strife [fl] 
1782.01.02  Philadelphia  CITATION Why Theon wouldst thou longer groan [fl] 
1772.04.16  New York  CITATION Why this day's shorter than the rest [fl] 
1776.09.12  Annapolis  CITATION Why throbs my heart? ah!--whence that sigh! [fl] 
1782.06.13  Norwich  CITATION Why Thron wouldst thou longest groan [fl] 
1773.07.05  Boston  CITATION Why through this maze of wretchedness and fear [fl] 
1773.08.06  Portsmouth  CITATION Why through this maze of wretchedness and fear [fl] 
1776.04.11  New York  CITATION Why toils the world so eager after fame? [fl] 
1776.10.28  Norwich  CITATION Why toils the world so eager after same? [fl] 
1778.05.16  London  CITATION Why towards two Georges good, humane and great [fl] 
1774.02.01  Philadelphia  CITATION Why turn we J-- those volumes o'er [fl] 
1775.12.14  Boston  CITATION Why unlamented should the valient bleed [fl] 
1781.11.21  Princeton  CITATION Why wanders my friend in this grove? [fl] 
1732.03.25  Charleston  CITATION Why waves the dubious maid in light suspence [fl] 
1774.08.15  Boston  CITATION Why, what, in the name of Old-Nick, can he mean [fl] 
1783.02.26  London  CITATION Why will Delia thus retire [fl] 
1760.08.07  Philadelphia  CITATION Why will soft sorrow thus o'erwhelm my soul [fl] 
1780.08.08  London  CITATION Why wish for more? [fl] 
1769.09.28  New York  CITATION Why would Fate Pursue [t], from Maid of the Mill [t], on concert program 
1769.10.05  New York  CITATION Why would Fate Pursue [t], from Maid of the Mill [t], on concert program 
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