| John Ford - English drama - 1811 - 522 pages
...This law we kept in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought a fiction, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known a truth : In which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity with delight. THE BROKEN... | |
| English drama - 1811 - 718 pages
...This law we kept in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here t the blackest May be washed white again. Pen. Never. Pet. Your leave, si troth : In which, if words have cloath'd the subject right, You may partake a pity with delight. *... | |
| John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 688 pages
...was about to develope ; and he therefore takes an early opportunity, in the Prologue, to inform the audience that the story was a borrowed one, and that...French or Italian collection of tales. But whatever maybe the groundwork, it must, after all, be admitted that the story derives its main claim on our... | |
| John Ford - Dramatists, English - 1827 - 682 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought FICTION, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A TRUTH : In which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity, with delight. This Prologue... | |
| John Ford - 1831 - 396 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought FICTION, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A TRUTH : In which, if you have clothed the subject right, You may partake a pity with delight. This Prologue... | |
| Philip Massinger, John Ford - English drama - 1840 - 768 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought FICTION, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A TRUTH : In which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity, with delight. ACT I. SCENE... | |
| Philip Massinger, John Ford - English drama - 1840 - 758 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought FICTION, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known A TRUTH : In which, if words have cloth'd the subject right, You may partake a pity, with delight. ACT I. SCENE... | |
| John Ford - 1869 - 406 pages
...was about to develop ; and he therefore takes an early opportunity, in the prologue, to inform the audience that the story was a borrowed one, and that...Italian collection of tales. But whatever may be the groundwork, it must, after all, be admitted that the story derives its main claim on our affections... | |
| Walter William Skeat - English language - 1873 - 146 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now Not to take freedom- more than we allow What may be here thought fiction when time's youth Wanted some riper years was known a truth In which if words have clothed the subject right You may partake a pity with delight (Prologue). (./)... | |
| John Ford - English drama - 1888 - 508 pages
...law we keep in our presentment now, Not to take freedom more than we allow ; What may be here thought Fiction, when time's youth Wanted some riper years, was known a Truth : In which, if words have clothed the subject right, You may partake a pity with delight. -<-& DRAMATIS... | |
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