The Devil is an Ass, Issues 29-30H. Holt, 1905 - 252 pages |
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Page xi
... speaks of it as the edition of 1631-41.2 Miss Bates , copying from Lowndes , gives it as belonging to 1631 , reprinted in 1640 ' The first volume of this folio appeared in 1616. A reprint of this volume in 1640 is sometimes called the ...
... speaks of it as the edition of 1631-41.2 Miss Bates , copying from Lowndes , gives it as belonging to 1631 , reprinted in 1640 ' The first volume of this folio appeared in 1616. A reprint of this volume in 1640 is sometimes called the ...
Page xviii
... speaks of Bretnor as occupying the position once held by the conspirators in the Overbury case . Franklin , who is mentioned , was not brought to trial until November 18 , 1615. Jonson does not speak of the trial as of a contemporary or ...
... speaks of Bretnor as occupying the position once held by the conspirators in the Overbury case . Franklin , who is mentioned , was not brought to trial until November 18 , 1615. Jonson does not speak of the trial as of a contemporary or ...
Page xxxii
... speaks Latin , while Fitzdottrel surprises his auditors by his ' several lan- guages , ' is of no more significance . This is one of the stock indications of witchcraft . It is mentioned by Darrel , and Jonson could not have overlooked ...
... speaks Latin , while Fitzdottrel surprises his auditors by his ' several lan- guages , ' is of no more significance . This is one of the stock indications of witchcraft . It is mentioned by Darrel , and Jonson could not have overlooked ...
Page xxxv
... and in Stubbes ' Anat . , 1583 . Nash speaks of the Vice as an antiquated figure as early as 1592 ( Wks . 2. 203 ) . ' Med . Stage , pp . 203-5 . ' any pre - Elizabethan moral interlude except the Marian Introduction XXXV.
... and in Stubbes ' Anat . , 1583 . Nash speaks of the Vice as an antiquated figure as early as 1592 ( Wks . 2. 203 ) . ' Med . Stage , pp . 203-5 . ' any pre - Elizabethan moral interlude except the Marian Introduction XXXV.
Page xxxvii
... . Merry Report in Heywood's Weather constantly moralizes , and speaks of himself as the servant of God in contrast with the devil . with the devil , and from Pug's desire to use Introduction Xxxvii Jonson's Use of the Vice.
... . Merry Report in Heywood's Weather constantly moralizes , and speaks of himself as the servant of God in contrast with the devil . with the devil , and from Pug's desire to use Introduction Xxxvii Jonson's Use of the Vice.
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Page 209 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 184 - Gallants, men and women, And of all sorts, tag-rag, been seen to flock here In threaves,* these ten weeks, as to a second Hogsden, In days of Pimlico and Eye-bright.
Page 204 - I understand is generally used in all places of Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of yron or steele, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is, because the Italian cannot by any meanes indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane.
Page 204 - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish...
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Page lv - Vincentio Saviolo his Practise. In two Bookes. The first intreating of the use of the Rapier and Dagger. The second of Honor and honorable Quarrels.
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Page 144 - ... take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the skin, bone, or any other part of any dead person...