Dramatic Micellanies [sic]: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakspeare: with a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick, and Other Celebrated Comedians. ... By Thomas Davies, ... In Three Volumes. ... |
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... Beaumont and Fletcher , very seldom employed this merry agent in their plays . Their claffical learning placed them , it is thought , above the use of fo mean an inftrument . It may be fo : but , I believe , their pieces did not fucceed ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher , very seldom employed this merry agent in their plays . Their claffical learning placed them , it is thought , above the use of fo mean an inftrument . It may be fo : but , I believe , their pieces did not fucceed ...
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Thomas Davies. Beffus , in the King and no King of Beaumont and Fletcher , is , I know , high- ly extolled , as a great original , by fome writers ; and particularly by Mr. Seward , a very able commentator upon Beaumont and Fletcher , as ...
Thomas Davies. Beffus , in the King and no King of Beaumont and Fletcher , is , I know , high- ly extolled , as a great original , by fome writers ; and particularly by Mr. Seward , a very able commentator upon Beaumont and Fletcher , as ...
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Thomas Davies. of Beaumont and Fletcher . Beffus was given to Woodward ; the manager defigned Arbaces for himself . They both appeared to be much pleased with the prospect of giving the public diverfion , and gaining great applause in ...
Thomas Davies. of Beaumont and Fletcher . Beffus was given to Woodward ; the manager defigned Arbaces for himself . They both appeared to be much pleased with the prospect of giving the public diverfion , and gaining great applause in ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher , thofe twin ftars that run Their glorious courfe round Shakspeare's golden fun : Or when Philafter Hamlet's place fupply'd , " Or Beffus walk'd with Falstaff by his fide . As cowardice , in the abstract , is a bad ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher , thofe twin ftars that run Their glorious courfe round Shakspeare's golden fun : Or when Philafter Hamlet's place fupply'd , " Or Beffus walk'd with Falstaff by his fide . As cowardice , in the abstract , is a bad ...
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... Beaumont and Fletcher place their cow- ards in such situations as must produce no- thing but contempt and difguft . Parolles fetches out rich matter , fine fpleen , and choleric humour , from old Lafeu . His distress , when blinded , is ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher place their cow- ards in such situations as must produce no- thing but contempt and difguft . Parolles fetches out rich matter , fine fpleen , and choleric humour , from old Lafeu . His distress , when blinded , is ...
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Page 317 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
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