The Staple of News, Volumes 28-29H. Holt, 1905 - 276 pages |
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... write masks ; and this , with a clearer consciousness of what he was about , and with a bolder faith , he did again , a quarter of a century later , in The Staple of News . Its The Staple of News is not a great stage - piece ...
... write masks ; and this , with a clearer consciousness of what he was about , and with a bolder faith , he did again , a quarter of a century later , in The Staple of News . Its The Staple of News is not a great stage - piece ...
Page xxix
... writing . The frequency of rimes in the verse por- tions also points to an early date of composition . Koeppel points out that both in A Tale of a Tub and in The London Prodigal a bridegroom is arrested on his wed- ding - day . This ...
... writing . The frequency of rimes in the verse por- tions also points to an early date of composition . Koeppel points out that both in A Tale of a Tub and in The London Prodigal a bridegroom is arrested on his wed- ding - day . This ...
Page xxx
... writing " ( p . 334 , note ) . In a play of ordinary every - day life , the scene of which was laid in the familiar fields of Tottenham Court , Kilburn , and St. Pancras , the very last thing which was likely to enter the writer's head ...
... writing " ( p . 334 , note ) . In a play of ordinary every - day life , the scene of which was laid in the familiar fields of Tottenham Court , Kilburn , and St. Pancras , the very last thing which was likely to enter the writer's head ...
Page xxxv
... writing was a regular profession , and some of those who engaged in it did nothing else . Retired army - captains were regarded as peculiarly adapted for this work , because , having served abroad , they were supposed to know and ...
... writing was a regular profession , and some of those who engaged in it did nothing else . Retired army - captains were regarded as peculiarly adapted for this work , because , having served abroad , they were supposed to know and ...
Page xxxvi
... writing of news - pamphlets dates back as far as the time of Henry VIII . In the 16th century these pamphlets were single folio pages , each devoted to one event , and hawked about the streets by criers and peddlers . Early in the 17th ...
... writing of news - pamphlets dates back as far as the time of Henry VIII . In the 16th century these pamphlets were single folio pages , each devoted to one event , and hawked about the streets by criers and peddlers . Early in the 17th ...
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Page 215 - At either corner of this west end is, also of ancient building, a strong tower of stone, made for bell towers : the one of them, to wit, next to the palace, is at...