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
... never ceased to converse ; and , by this one step , which , according to our notions , and , probably , his own , was calculated to repair , in some measure , the injury which the lady's character had sustained , ruined both her and ...
... never ceased to converse ; and , by this one step , which , according to our notions , and , probably , his own , was calculated to repair , in some measure , the injury which the lady's character had sustained , ruined both her and ...
Page xii
... - temporaries , in the pursuit of the law , to which he prudently adhered ; a circumstance which he never forgets , nor ever suffers his patrons to forget , as if he feared to pass with them more for a poet xii INTRODUCTION .
... - temporaries , in the pursuit of the law , to which he prudently adhered ; a circumstance which he never forgets , nor ever suffers his patrons to forget , as if he feared to pass with them more for a poet xii INTRODUCTION .
Page xxiii
... never per- mits a doubt of it to escape him , and thus skilfully avoids the awkwardness of shaking the credit and diminishing the interest of his chief character ; for Perkin and not Henry is the hero of the play . More will be found in ...
... never per- mits a doubt of it to escape him , and thus skilfully avoids the awkwardness of shaking the credit and diminishing the interest of his chief character ; for Perkin and not Henry is the hero of the play . More will be found in ...
Page xxiv
... never aimed at any pecuniary advantage . Granted : but he forgets that he had no need of it ; and there is something in this implied triumph over his ne- cessitous contemporaries , which , to say the best of it , is to be praised ...
... never aimed at any pecuniary advantage . Granted : but he forgets that he had no need of it ; and there is something in this implied triumph over his ne- cessitous contemporaries , which , to say the best of it , is to be praised ...
Page xxxii
... never reach again , the writers themselves possessed no sway whatever over the feelings of the people ; while , at a subsequent period , when the power of the stage for good and evil was understood , it was turned wholly to the purposes ...
... never reach again , the writers themselves possessed no sway whatever over the feelings of the people ; while , at a subsequent period , when the power of the stage for good and evil was understood , it was turned wholly to the purposes ...
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