The Dramatic Works With Notes Critical, Volume 1John Murray, 1827 |
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Page viii
... truth , he was sufficiently ostentatious in his earliest work , though he became more reserved when age and experi- ence had enabled him to compare his attainments with those of his contemporaries . It appears from Rymer's Fœdera ...
... truth , he was sufficiently ostentatious in his earliest work , though he became more reserved when age and experi- ence had enabled him to compare his attainments with those of his contemporaries . It appears from Rymer's Fœdera ...
Page xi
... truth she does exhibit no unfavour- able symptom of good sense in " confining her thoughts to elder merits , " instead of " solacing " her youthful admirer , who , at the period of first taking the infection into his eye , could not ...
... truth she does exhibit no unfavour- able symptom of good sense in " confining her thoughts to elder merits , " instead of " solacing " her youthful admirer , who , at the period of first taking the infection into his eye , could not ...
Page xxiv
... truth too seductive for the subject , and flings a soft and soothing light over what , in its natural state , would glare with salutary and repulsive horror . Somewhat too much indulgence has been shown to the management of the two ...
... truth too seductive for the subject , and flings a soft and soothing light over what , in its natural state , would glare with salutary and repulsive horror . Somewhat too much indulgence has been shown to the management of the two ...
Page xxv
... truth . " He could not be so ignorant of history as to sup- pose that Sparta was ever the scene of a tragedy like this ; and he probably means no more than that it was extant in some French or Italian col- lection of tales . But ...
... truth . " He could not be so ignorant of history as to sup- pose that Sparta was ever the scene of a tragedy like this ; and he probably means no more than that it was extant in some French or Italian col- lection of tales . But ...
Page xxvi
... truth , it seems scarcely possible to turn back and re- view the beautiful passages which abound in the first three plays of this volume , without placing the author in a very honourable rank among the dramatic writers of his day . Ford ...
... truth , it seems scarcely possible to turn back and re- view the beautiful passages which abound in the first three plays of this volume , without placing the author in a very honourable rank among the dramatic writers of his day . Ford ...
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