Yale Studies in English, Volumes 46-471913 |
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... English is always correct , and his vocabulary ample , with an occasional fondness for unusual Latin derivatives . His style is distinctly more colloquial than academic . But the important indication that he received some scholastic ...
... English is always correct , and his vocabulary ample , with an occasional fondness for unusual Latin derivatives . His style is distinctly more colloquial than academic . But the important indication that he received some scholastic ...
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... 2 Fleay , Chronicle Hist . p . 334 . 3 Tennant's ed . New Inn ( Yale Studies in English , No. 34 ) , Introduction , pp . xxi ff . Life No doubt some mouldy tale Like Pericles ; and 6 Richard Brome : A Study of his Life and Works.
... 2 Fleay , Chronicle Hist . p . 334 . 3 Tennant's ed . New Inn ( Yale Studies in English , No. 34 ) , Introduction , pp . xxi ff . Life No doubt some mouldy tale Like Pericles ; and 6 Richard Brome : A Study of his Life and Works.
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... below , p . 36 . 2 J. T. Murray ( English Dramatic Companies 1. 367 ) says the company was formed shortly before Feb. 7 , 1637 , and played at the Cockpit . The fact that the Salisbury Court Theatre , in spite Life 15.
... below , p . 36 . 2 J. T. Murray ( English Dramatic Companies 1. 367 ) says the company was formed shortly before Feb. 7 , 1637 , and played at the Cockpit . The fact that the Salisbury Court Theatre , in spite Life 15.
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... English Moor , and Damoiselle . As the lost play , Wit in a Madness , was entered in the Stationers ' Register March 19 , 1639/40 , along with the Sparagus Garden and the Antipodes , it is possibly of the same period of composition ...
... English Moor , and Damoiselle . As the lost play , Wit in a Madness , was entered in the Stationers ' Register March 19 , 1639/40 , along with the Sparagus Garden and the Antipodes , it is possibly of the same period of composition ...
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... English Mæcenas . ' The duke and his very literary duchess took the greatest interest in Jonson , who seems to have accepted and appreciated their patronage . Jonson wrote epitaphs , elegies , appre- ciative verses , an interlude for a ...
... English Mæcenas . ' The duke and his very literary duchess took the greatest interest in Jonson , who seems to have accepted and appreciated their patronage . Jonson wrote epitaphs , elegies , appre- ciative verses , an interlude for a ...
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