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Page xvi
If it be so , the incongruous nature of the fable is easily accounted for , by the additions which other poets , and above all our author , were called upon to supply , as occasions presented themselves ; for we deceive ourselves ...
If it be so , the incongruous nature of the fable is easily accounted for , by the additions which other poets , and above all our author , were called upon to supply , as occasions presented themselves ; for we deceive ourselves ...
Page xxiv
It is not easy to speak too favourably of the poetry of this play in the more impassioned passages ; it is in truth too seductive for the subject , and flings a soft and soothing light over what , in its natural state , would glare with ...
It is not easy to speak too favourably of the poetry of this play in the more impassioned passages ; it is in truth too seductive for the subject , and flings a soft and soothing light over what , in its natural state , would glare with ...
Page xxv
After all , her repentance is of a very questionable nature ; while , on his part , Giovanni continues to accumulate crime on crime till the harassed mind can bear no more . It is unnecessary to prolong these remarks , as occasional ...
After all , her repentance is of a very questionable nature ; while , on his part , Giovanni continues to accumulate crime on crime till the harassed mind can bear no more . It is unnecessary to prolong these remarks , as occasional ...
Page xl
So many remarks are incidentally scattered through these pages on the nature of our poet's plots , that little more seems called for here than to remark that in the construction , or rather perhaps in the selection of his fables , there ...
So many remarks are incidentally scattered through these pages on the nature of our poet's plots , that little more seems called for here than to remark that in the construction , or rather perhaps in the selection of his fables , there ...
Page xli
the heart to see a man , from whom nature has withheld all perception of the tones and attitudes of humour , labouring with all his might to be airy and playful ; and it is impossible to contemplate Ford under this strange infatuation ...
the heart to see a man , from whom nature has withheld all perception of the tones and attitudes of humour , labouring with all his might to be airy and playful ; and it is impossible to contemplate Ford under this strange infatuation ...
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| Title | The Dramatic Works of John Ford |
| Author | W. Gifford |
| Published | 1827 |
| Original from | Austrian National Library |
| Digitized | 6 Jun 2014 |
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