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The verses , ' To my Lord of Newcastle on his Play called the Variety , ' are as
extravagant as all of their type , but the statement , ' He having commanded to
give him my true opinion of it , ' which is appended , must indicate , if true , that his
...
The verses , ' To my Lord of Newcastle on his Play called the Variety , ' are as
extravagant as all of their type , but the statement , ' He having commanded to
give him my true opinion of it , ' which is appended , must indicate , if true , that his
...
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1 This , however , is not true . The speech of Lawrence and Parnell , which is
considered fairly good Lancashire dialect , ' is much more difficult for the average
reader than that of Constance in the Northern Lass , who speaks a sort of general
...
1 This , however , is not true . The speech of Lawrence and Parnell , which is
considered fairly good Lancashire dialect , ' is much more difficult for the average
reader than that of Constance in the Northern Lass , who speaks a sort of general
...
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2 If this is true of the romantic drama of the period , we may expect to find
extremely careless work in the realistic comedies of manners . Why these should
be written in verse at all is hard to see . Yet Brome , following the custom , wrote
six out ...
2 If this is true of the romantic drama of the period , we may expect to find
extremely careless work in the realistic comedies of manners . Why these should
be written in verse at all is hard to see . Yet Brome , following the custom , wrote
six out ...
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I am an old Courtier I , still true to th ' Crown . Other examples of carelessness in
versification are the two ' fourteeners ' in the first scene of the Lovesick Court ,
and the occurrence , four times in Brome ' s work , of a word divided at the end of
a ...
I am an old Courtier I , still true to th ' Crown . Other examples of carelessness in
versification are the two ' fourteeners ' in the first scene of the Lovesick Court ,
and the occurrence , four times in Brome ' s work , of a word divided at the end of
a ...
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The same thing is true of most of the Jacobeans . With the Caroline dramatists
there was somewhat of a weakening of the moral tone , and a slight increase in
the vulgarity and indecency of the dialogue . But they surely did not have far to go
in ...
The same thing is true of most of the Jacobeans . With the Caroline dramatists
there was somewhat of a weakening of the moral tone , and a slight increase in
the vulgarity and indecency of the dialogue . But they surely did not have far to go
in ...
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| Title | Yale Studies in English, Volumes 46-47 Yale Studies in English |
| Published | 1913 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 27 Sep 2007 |
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