The Dramatic Works With Notes Critical, Volume 1John Murray, 1827 |
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Page xix
... never wronged her , nor even come into contact with her . In addition to which , it may be noticed that not a single circumstance takes place in the serious part which calls for the intervention of supernatural aid . Young Thorney ...
... never wronged her , nor even come into contact with her . In addition to which , it may be noticed that not a single circumstance takes place in the serious part which calls for the intervention of supernatural aid . Young Thorney ...
Page xxxii
... never aimed at any pecuniary ad- vantage . Granted : but he forgets that he had no need of it ; and there is something in this im- plied triumph over his necessitous contemporaries , which , to say the best of it , is to be praised ...
... never aimed at any pecuniary ad- vantage . Granted : but he forgets that he had no need of it ; and there is something in this im- plied triumph over his necessitous contemporaries , which , to say the best of it , is to be praised ...
Page xxxvi
... never yet been rendered to their independence on one another generally speaking , they stand insulated and alone , and draw , each in his station , from their own stores . Whether it be , that poetry in that age " Wanton'd as in its ...
... never yet been rendered to their independence on one another generally speaking , they stand insulated and alone , and draw , each in his station , from their own stores . Whether it be , that poetry in that age " Wanton'd as in its ...
Page xliv
... never been able to conjecture . Faint tradi- tions in the neighbourhood of his birthplace lead rather to the supposition that , having from his legal pursuits acquired a sufficient fortune , he retired to his home , to pass the ...
... never been able to conjecture . Faint tradi- tions in the neighbourhood of his birthplace lead rather to the supposition that , having from his legal pursuits acquired a sufficient fortune , he retired to his home , to pass the ...
Page xlv
... never makes the slightest allusion to his pleadings ; and his anxious disavowals to his several patrons of permitting his dramatic labours to encroach upon his proper business would almost lead to a conclusion that he acted as a kind of ...
... never makes the slightest allusion to his pleadings ; and his anxious disavowals to his several patrons of permitting his dramatic labours to encroach upon his proper business would almost lead to a conclusion that he acted as a kind of ...
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