The Dramatic Works With Notes Critical, Volume 1John Murray, 1827 |
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... poet sets out with affirming ( and he deserves the fullest credit ) that his Muse was unfeed . Be this as it may , it argued no little spirit in him to advocate an unpopular cause , and step forward in the sanguine expectation of ...
... poet sets out with affirming ( and he deserves the fullest credit ) that his Muse was unfeed . Be this as it may , it argued no little spirit in him to advocate an unpopular cause , and step forward in the sanguine expectation of ...
Page xii
... poet than a man of business . But he had yet another resource . He had ap- parently contracted a strong and early passion for the Stage , to which he devoted most of his horæ subsecivæ ; and , without prematurely grasping at a name ...
... poet than a man of business . But he had yet another resource . He had ap- parently contracted a strong and early passion for the Stage , to which he devoted most of his horæ subsecivæ ; and , without prematurely grasping at a name ...
Page xiii
... poet's name , among which are " Sir Thomas Overbury's Life and untimely Death , " 25th November , 1615 . " The Line of Life , " 10th October , 1620. " An ill Beginning has a good End , & c . " which is known to have been brought on the ...
... poet's name , among which are " Sir Thomas Overbury's Life and untimely Death , " 25th November , 1615 . " The Line of Life , " 10th October , 1620. " An ill Beginning has a good End , & c . " which is known to have been brought on the ...
Page xvi
... poets , and above all our author , were called upon to supply , as occasions presented themselves ; for we deceive ourselves greatly if we suppose , from the combination of names which sometimes ap- pears on the old title - pages , that ...
... poets , and above all our author , were called upon to supply , as occasions presented themselves ; for we deceive ourselves greatly if we suppose , from the combination of names which sometimes ap- pears on the old title - pages , that ...
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... poets with little more than a title- page . It is apparently a story made up for the occasion , and though it is highly probable that a woman of this name was executed for a witch , yet I place no reliance on the date , though , in ...
... poets with little more than a title- page . It is apparently a story made up for the occasion , and though it is highly probable that a woman of this name was executed for a witch , yet I place no reliance on the date , though , in ...
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