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Page xiii
... hand , it does not aid in a true appreciation of this play to disregard its structural defects or to palliate its frequent coarseness . Leigh Hunt condemned it as ' full of the absolutest , and loathsomest , trash ' , 2 a criticism ...
... hand , it does not aid in a true appreciation of this play to disregard its structural defects or to palliate its frequent coarseness . Leigh Hunt condemned it as ' full of the absolutest , and loathsomest , trash ' , 2 a criticism ...
Page xiv
... making a wealthy match , in pursuit of which they are friendly rivals for the hand of Dame Purecraft as well as that of Grace Wellborn . A second interest is in the visit to the Fair of Cokes and his party ( xiv Introduction.
... making a wealthy match , in pursuit of which they are friendly rivals for the hand of Dame Purecraft as well as that of Grace Wellborn . A second interest is in the visit to the Fair of Cokes and his party ( xiv Introduction.
Page xx
... penetrate the disguises of evil and expose the insidious foe . His hostile attitude and mode of attack , he himself best describes : But , with an armed and resolved hand , I'll XX Introduction Jonson's Satire of the Puritans.
... penetrate the disguises of evil and expose the insidious foe . His hostile attitude and mode of attack , he himself best describes : But , with an armed and resolved hand , I'll XX Introduction Jonson's Satire of the Puritans.
Page xxi
Ben Jonson Carroll Storrs Alden. But , with an armed and resolved hand , I'll strip the ragged follies of the time Naked as at their birth and with a whip of steel , Print wounding lashes in their iron ribs . Well , I will scourge those ...
Ben Jonson Carroll Storrs Alden. But , with an armed and resolved hand , I'll strip the ragged follies of the time Naked as at their birth and with a whip of steel , Print wounding lashes in their iron ribs . Well , I will scourge those ...
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... hands , The Play fhall presently begin . And though the Fayre be not kept in the fame Region , that some here , 15 perhaps , would haue it , yet thinke , that therein the Author hath obferu'd a speciall Decorum , the place being as ...
... hands , The Play fhall presently begin . And though the Fayre be not kept in the fame Region , that some here , 15 perhaps , would haue it , yet thinke , that therein the Author hath obferu'd a speciall Decorum , the place being as ...
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Page 151 - To Banbury came I, O profane one, Where I saw a Puritane one Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
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Page 148 - ts own hall ; when these (in worthy scorn Of those that put out monies on return From Venice, Paris, or some inland passage Of six times to and fro, without embassage, Or him that backward went to Berwick, or which Did dance the famous Morris unto Norwich) At Bread Street's Mermaid, having dined, and merry, Proposed to go to Holborn in a wherry: A harder task than either his to Bristo', Or his to Antwerp.
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Page 154 - ... and sometime painted with variable colours, with two or three hundred men, women and children following it with great devotion. And thus being reared up with...
Page 163 - The custom of eating a gammon of bacon at Easter (which is still kept up in many parts of England) was founded on this, viz. to shew their abhorrence of Judaism at that solemn commemoration of our Lord's resurrection. " The use of your humble servant came first into England on the marriage of Queen Mary, daughter of Hen.