The Knight of Our Burning PestleH. Holt, 1908 - 309 pages |
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Page xix
... line was , perhaps , unequaled for the natural feeling which she put into the parts most suited to her1 . 1 Doran , English Stage 1. 62 . The last presentation of our play in the seventeenth century b 2 Date and Stage - History xix.
... line was , perhaps , unequaled for the natural feeling which she put into the parts most suited to her1 . 1 Doran , English Stage 1. 62 . The last presentation of our play in the seventeenth century b 2 Date and Stage - History xix.
Page xx
... century , so far as I have discovered , was in 1682 . According to Genest ' , it was acted that year at the Theatre ... century , and a few of them , notably The Maid's Tragedy , were occasionally acted , with alterations , during the ...
... century , so far as I have discovered , was in 1682 . According to Genest ' , it was acted that year at the Theatre ... century , and a few of them , notably The Maid's Tragedy , were occasionally acted , with alterations , during the ...
Page lxviii
... century , books of chivalry had lost much of their prestige in Spain itself , and it was inevitable that they should receive small notice in English society , whose literary fashions were largely dominated by Spanish influence1 . But ...
... century , books of chivalry had lost much of their prestige in Spain itself , and it was inevitable that they should receive small notice in English society , whose literary fashions were largely dominated by Spanish influence1 . But ...
Page lxxi
... century , and the favor accorded them by the citizen - spectators in our play seems to be in no wise overdrawn . Not only the shopkeepers , but bourgeois society as a 1 Cf. Robert Laneham's Letter , ed . Furnivall , p . 12 . い whole ...
... century , and the favor accorded them by the citizen - spectators in our play seems to be in no wise overdrawn . Not only the shopkeepers , but bourgeois society as a 1 Cf. Robert Laneham's Letter , ed . Furnivall , p . 12 . い whole ...
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... century after their importation1 . How plebeian was their appeal may be partially in- dicated , indeed , by the traditional belief that Palmerin de Oliva itself was the work of a carpenter's daughter in northern Spain . The stories were ...
... century after their importation1 . How plebeian was their appeal may be partially in- dicated , indeed , by the traditional belief that Palmerin de Oliva itself was the work of a carpenter's daughter in northern Spain . The stories were ...
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Page 123 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
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Page 156 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 109 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms that the player, when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is ; or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear...
Page 114 - Centuries ; being a Series of Extracts, Local, Social, and Political, from the Archives of the City of London, AD 1276-1419.
Page 186 - A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs?
Page xix - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Page 235 - It was anciently the custom for all ranks of people to go out a maying on the first of May. It is on record that King Henry VIII. and Queen Katharine partook of this diversion" (STEEVENS): "Stowe says, that, 'in the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods ; there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the noise [ie music] of birds, praising God in their kind.
Page 165 - A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet : O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet.