The Staple of NewsH. Holt, 1905 - 276 pages |
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Page xi
... probably it was then put into circulation , either as a separate pamphlet or bound with Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass . Copies of this original edition were , in 1641 , bound into the second volume of the First Folio of ...
... probably it was then put into circulation , either as a separate pamphlet or bound with Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass . Copies of this original edition were , in 1641 , bound into the second volume of the First Folio of ...
Page xiii
... probably would have published it then but for a stroke of paralysis , which he suffered that year . It is well - nigh certain , too , that he gave some , though by no means careful , attention to the printing of it in 1631. The evidence ...
... probably would have published it then but for a stroke of paralysis , which he suffered that year . It is well - nigh certain , too , that he gave some , though by no means careful , attention to the printing of it in 1631. The evidence ...
Page xiv
... probably due to the damning by the town of The New Inn in the same year . ' But though , as Nicholson has shown , The Staple of News was printed under Jonson's supervision , he could not have given it close attention . As Whalley and ...
... probably due to the damning by the town of The New Inn in the same year . ' But though , as Nicholson has shown , The Staple of News was printed under Jonson's supervision , he could not have given it close attention . As Whalley and ...
Page xviii
... probably Jonson's paralytic stroke - it was not published till 1631 , when the poet himself gave at least some attention to the printing of it . " Jonson conceived the idea of the news - staple as early as the latter part of 1620. In ...
... probably Jonson's paralytic stroke - it was not published till 1631 , when the poet himself gave at least some attention to the printing of it . " Jonson conceived the idea of the news - staple as early as the latter part of 1620. In ...
Page xx
... Probably he meant then to promise us a play containing this as a main feature ; and perhaps he had already done something towards it . In view , however , of the developments in Butter's news - system in 1622 , as well as the fact that ...
... Probably he meant then to promise us a play containing this as a main feature ; and perhaps he had already done something towards it . In view , however , of the developments in Butter's news - system in 1622 , as well as the fact that ...
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