The Staple of News, Volumes 28-29H. Holt, 1905 - 276 pages |
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... write masks ; and this , with a clearer consciousness of what he was about , and with a bolder faith , he did again , a quarter of a century later , in The Staple of News . Its The Staple of News is not a great stage - piece ...
... write masks ; and this , with a clearer consciousness of what he was about , and with a bolder faith , he did again , a quarter of a century later , in The Staple of News . Its The Staple of News is not a great stage - piece ...
Page xxix
... writing . The frequency of rimes in the verse por- tions also points to an early date of composition . Koeppel points out that both in A Tale of a Tub and in The London Prodigal a bridegroom is arrested on his wed- ding - day . This ...
... writing . The frequency of rimes in the verse por- tions also points to an early date of composition . Koeppel points out that both in A Tale of a Tub and in The London Prodigal a bridegroom is arrested on his wed- ding - day . This ...
Page xxx
... writing " ( p . 334 , note ) . In a play of ordinary every - day life , the scene of which was laid in the familiar fields of Tottenham Court , Kilburn , and St. Pancras , the very last thing which was likely to enter the writer's head ...
... writing " ( p . 334 , note ) . In a play of ordinary every - day life , the scene of which was laid in the familiar fields of Tottenham Court , Kilburn , and St. Pancras , the very last thing which was likely to enter the writer's head ...
Page xxxv
... writing was a regular profession , and some of those who engaged in it did nothing else . Retired army - captains were regarded as peculiarly adapted for this work , because , having served abroad , they were supposed to know and ...
... writing was a regular profession , and some of those who engaged in it did nothing else . Retired army - captains were regarded as peculiarly adapted for this work , because , having served abroad , they were supposed to know and ...
Page xxxvi
... writing of news - pamphlets dates back as far as the time of Henry VIII . In the 16th century these pamphlets were single folio pages , each devoted to one event , and hawked about the streets by criers and peddlers . Early in the 17th ...
... writing of news - pamphlets dates back as far as the time of Henry VIII . In the 16th century these pamphlets were single folio pages , each devoted to one event , and hawked about the streets by criers and peddlers . Early in the 17th ...
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Page 117 - But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, because impudently, beating down the mews and hisses of the opposed rascality.
Page 162 - He the half of life abuses That sits watering with the Muses. Those dull girls no good can mean us ; Wine — it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted : Ply it, and you all are mounted.
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Page 138 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 163 - These acts continued in force till lately, to the terror of all ancient females in the kingdom: and many poor wretches were sacrificed thereby to the prejudice of their neighbours, and their own illusions; not a few having, by some means or other, confessed the fact at the gallows.
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