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 . The Staple of News is not a great stage - piece . Its ...
... 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 . The Staple of News is not a great stage - piece . Its ...
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 170 - 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. 'Tis the true Phoebian liquor, Cheers the brains, makes wit the quicker.
Page 136 - It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.
Page 146 - 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 211 - The marshalling of coat-armour, which was formerly the pride and study of all the best families in the kingdom, is now greatly disregarded; and has fallen into the hands of certain officers and attendants upon this court, called heralds...
Page 131 - ... whose play it is ; and by that quest of inquiry the law warrants you to avoid much mistaking. If you know not the author, you may rail against him, and peradventure so behave yourself, that you may enforce the author to know you.
Page 134 - ALL tenures being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite...
Page xxxvi - Newes from Scotland : Declaring the damnable Life of Doctor Fian a notable Sorcerer...
Page 125 - 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 219 - At either corner of this west end is, also of ancient building, a strong tower of stone, made for bell towers : the one of them, to wit, next to the palace, is at...
Page 128 - As when hee said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him ; Caesar thou dost me wrong. Hee replyed : Caesar did never wrong, but with just cause and such like: which were ridiculous.