A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1861 - English language |
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... lord chamberlain , addressed to the Stationers ' Company , in June , 1637 , in which he states that complaints to that effect had been made to him by the players , the legal pro- prietors of those " books of comedies , tragedies ...
... lord chamberlain , addressed to the Stationers ' Company , in June , 1637 , in which he states that complaints to that effect had been made to him by the players , the legal pro- prietors of those " books of comedies , tragedies ...
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... Lords and Commons passed on the 2nd of September , 1642 , -after setting forth that " public sports do not well agree with public cala- mities , nor public stage - plays with the seasons of humiliation , this being an exercise of sad ...
... Lords and Commons passed on the 2nd of September , 1642 , -after setting forth that " public sports do not well agree with public cala- mities , nor public stage - plays with the seasons of humiliation , this being an exercise of sad ...
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... Lords and Commons pub- lished in October , 1647 , entitled , " For the better suppression of stage - plays , interludes , and common players , " by which the lord mayor , justices of the peace , and sheriffs of the city of London and ...
... Lords and Commons pub- lished in October , 1647 , entitled , " For the better suppression of stage - plays , interludes , and common players , " by which the lord mayor , justices of the peace , and sheriffs of the city of London and ...
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... Lord Herbert of Cherbury , was a clergyman . His volume , entitled The Temple , was first published soon after his death in 1633 , and was at least six or seven times reprinted in the course of the next quarter of a century . His ...
... Lord Herbert of Cherbury , was a clergyman . His volume , entitled The Temple , was first published soon after his death in 1633 , and was at least six or seven times reprinted in the course of the next quarter of a century . His ...
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... Lord Brooke ) at Warwick Castle , and who is understood to be the Reverend Samuel Burton , Archdeacon of Gloucester : — With him there was a prelate , by his place Archdeacon to the bishop , by his face A greater man ; for that did ...
... Lord Brooke ) at Warwick Castle , and who is understood to be the Reverend Samuel Burton , Archdeacon of Gloucester : — With him there was a prelate , by his place Archdeacon to the bishop , by his face A greater man ; for that did ...
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