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... kind of lore as in a single play of Jonson's - as , for instance , the Staple of News . In fact , for all the special knowledge of lan- guages and law in the plays , I think there is nothing to show more than a ready memory , and a ...
... kind of lore as in a single play of Jonson's - as , for instance , the Staple of News . In fact , for all the special knowledge of lan- guages and law in the plays , I think there is nothing to show more than a ready memory , and a ...
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... kind ; they wrote in a system which even Wagner only ventured to hope for , not to act on , of music without bars ; they had no 1 E. g . , the Prologue to the Jovial Crew . 2 New Inn . , ed . Tennant , Introduction , p . XXXV . rule but ...
... kind ; they wrote in a system which even Wagner only ventured to hope for , not to act on , of music without bars ; they had no 1 E. g . , the Prologue to the Jovial Crew . 2 New Inn . , ed . Tennant , Introduction , p . XXXV . rule but ...
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... kind are of slight consequence . Brome's imitation of Jonson is of a much more fundamental character . I think that even the types of plot he uses are developments of the types used by his master . I have already mentioned , in the ...
... kind are of slight consequence . Brome's imitation of Jonson is of a much more fundamental character . I think that even the types of plot he uses are developments of the types used by his master . I have already mentioned , in the ...
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... kind of thing . Another similar and purely external device is that of occasionally adding a brief characterization of 2 Op . cit . , pp . 145 , 169 . 1 Op . cit . , 3. 129 , n . 2 . g some of the dramatis personæ in printing a play ...
... kind of thing . Another similar and purely external device is that of occasionally adding a brief characterization of 2 Op . cit . , pp . 145 , 169 . 1 Op . cit . , 3. 129 , n . 2 . g some of the dramatis personæ in printing a play ...
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... kind of Matron of Ephesus , ' in the City Wit . The green - room scene in the Gentleman Usher 1 Ward , op . cit . , 3. 128 . 2 Schelling , Eliz . Drama 2. 336 . 3 Faust ( op . cit . , p . 77 ) mentions this as the sole source . 4 ...
... kind of Matron of Ephesus , ' in the City Wit . The green - room scene in the Gentleman Usher 1 Ward , op . cit . , 3. 128 . 2 Schelling , Eliz . Drama 2. 336 . 3 Faust ( op . cit . , p . 77 ) mentions this as the sole source . 4 ...
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Page 175 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 128 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 113 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
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Page 131 - While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field? Now of time they are much more liberal. For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — and all this in two hours...
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