The Dramatic Works of John Ford:: With an Introduction, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. In Two Volumes. ...John Murray, Albemarle Street. [Printed by C. Roworth and Sons, Bell Yard, Temple Bar.], 1831 |
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Page ix
... honour , and held a command in the fleet which defeated the Spanish Armada . His extraordinary merits did not escape the quick eye of Elizabeth , who gave him various tokens of her favour , and thus exposed him to the envy of Essex . In ...
... honour , and held a command in the fleet which defeated the Spanish Armada . His extraordinary merits did not escape the quick eye of Elizabeth , who gave him various tokens of her favour , and thus exposed him to the envy of Essex . In ...
Page xvi
... honoured friends of that Noble Society , " to his first acknowledged piece , the Lover's Melancholy . There is an affectation of modesty in the dedication , which , when the writer's age is considered , ( for he was now in the full ...
... honoured friends of that Noble Society , " to his first acknowledged piece , the Lover's Melancholy . There is an affectation of modesty in the dedication , which , when the writer's age is considered , ( for he was now in the full ...
Page xxvii
... honour of Adurni in the former , like that of Troylo in the latter , ultimately vindicated by an unlooked - for marriage . Feeble and imperfect , however , as the plot of the " Lady's Trial " is , and trifling as some of the characters ...
... honour of Adurni in the former , like that of Troylo in the latter , ultimately vindicated by an unlooked - for marriage . Feeble and imperfect , however , as the plot of the " Lady's Trial " is , and trifling as some of the characters ...
Page xxxi
... honoured- popular , but not influential . It is not a little mortifying to reflect , that while dramatic poetry towered in its pride of place , * See p . 11 . and long sustained itself at an elevation which it will INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
... honoured- popular , but not influential . It is not a little mortifying to reflect , that while dramatic poetry towered in its pride of place , * See p . 11 . and long sustained itself at an elevation which it will INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
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... honours , becomes bereft of rea- son , and remains a prisoner to his castle , under the care of his other daughter , the tender - hearted and faithful Cleo- phila . The author of all this mischief shortly after dies ; ( 4 ) but , at the ...
... honours , becomes bereft of rea- son , and remains a prisoner to his castle , under the care of his other daughter , the tender - hearted and faithful Cleo- phila . The author of all this mischief shortly after dies ; ( 4 ) but , at the ...
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