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It is incidentally observed by Dr. Farmer , ( Essay on Shakspeare , ) " that play - writing in the poet's days was scarcely thought a creditable employ . " To this , perhaps , may in some measure be attributed the slight notice which is ...
It is incidentally observed by Dr. Farmer , ( Essay on Shakspeare , ) " that play - writing in the poet's days was scarcely thought a creditable employ . " To this , perhaps , may in some measure be attributed the slight notice which is ...
Page xi
He wishes that she were less wise ; and in truth she does exhibit no unfavourable symptom of good sense in " confining her thoughts to elder merits , " instead of " solacing " her youthful admirer , who , at the period of first taking ...
He wishes that she were less wise ; and in truth she does exhibit no unfavourable symptom of good sense in " confining her thoughts to elder merits , " instead of " solacing " her youthful admirer , who , at the period of first taking ...
Page xviii
a " Devil to the delighted stage ; " and this may be thought to account in some measure for the & c . " subjoined to the list of writers in the titlepage . 66 And popular , no doubt , the piece was . The Sorceress of our times ( for ...
a " Devil to the delighted stage ; " and this may be thought to account in some measure for the & c . " subjoined to the list of writers in the titlepage . 66 And popular , no doubt , the piece was . The Sorceress of our times ( for ...
Page xxiv
... a shameless avower , and justifier of his impure purpose : Annabella is not a jot behind him in precocity of vice ; and , as appears from a confession wrung from her with little effort , had long suffered her thoughts to wander ...
... a shameless avower , and justifier of his impure purpose : Annabella is not a jot behind him in precocity of vice ; and , as appears from a confession wrung from her with little effort , had long suffered her thoughts to wander ...
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... and he therefore takes an early opportunity , in the Prologue , to inform the audience that the story was a borrowed one , and that " what may be thought a fiction ,―― when time's youth Wanted some riper years , was known a truth .
... and he therefore takes an early opportunity , in the Prologue , to inform the audience that the story was a borrowed one , and that " what may be thought a fiction ,―― when time's youth Wanted some riper years , was known a truth .
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