The Dramatic Works With Notes Critical, Volume 1John Murray, 1827 |
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... tell- ing ; but this is only saying , in other words , that he planned better than he executed . His beset- ting error was an unfortunate persuasion , that he was gifted with a certain degree of pleasantry with which it behoved him ...
... tell- ing ; but this is only saying , in other words , that he planned better than he executed . His beset- ting error was an unfortunate persuasion , that he was gifted with a certain degree of pleasantry with which it behoved him ...
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... tell . " In this almost general corruption , Dryden led the way , which he fairly confesses , and endeavours to excuse in his Epilogue to the Pil- grim , revived in 1700 for the benefit of his declining age . Langbaine supposes Ford to ...
... tell . " In this almost general corruption , Dryden led the way , which he fairly confesses , and endeavours to excuse in his Epilogue to the Pil- grim , revived in 1700 for the benefit of his declining age . Langbaine supposes Ford to ...
Page lxxxix
... tell why , takes the speech from the person to whom it ne- cessarily belongs , then gives it to another , who is otherwise engaged ; and lastly celebrates his own sagacity in this dou- ble error , heightened by a senseless corruption of ...
... tell why , takes the speech from the person to whom it ne- cessarily belongs , then gives it to another , who is otherwise engaged ; and lastly celebrates his own sagacity in this dou- ble error , heightened by a senseless corruption of ...
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... tell at any time ; but Ford was thinking of the theatre in the Black Friars , where a chair , such as he describes , was a well - known property , and used in various plays then on the stage . This " horrible instru- ment of torture ...
... tell at any time ; but Ford was thinking of the theatre in the Black Friars , where a chair , such as he describes , was a well - known property , and used in various plays then on the stage . This " horrible instru- ment of torture ...
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John Ford. Nor art in verse ; true , I have heard some tell Of Aganippe , but ne'er knew the well : Therefore have no ambition with the times , To be in print , for making of ill rhymes ; But love of thee , and justice to thy pen , Hath ...
John Ford. Nor art in verse ; true , I have heard some tell Of Aganippe , but ne'er knew the well : Therefore have no ambition with the times , To be in print , for making of ill rhymes ; But love of thee , and justice to thy pen , Hath ...
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