The School of Abuse: Containing a Pleasant Invective Against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters, Etc |
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... IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM . MILMAN , REV . HENRY HART . TALFOURD , MR . SERGEANT , M.P. TOMLINS , F. GUEST , ESQ . , SECRETARY . WRIGHT , THOMAS , ESQ . , F.S.A. YOUNG , CHARLES M. , ESQ . INTRODUCTION . STEPHEN GOSSON , the author of the ...
... IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM . MILMAN , REV . HENRY HART . TALFOURD , MR . SERGEANT , M.P. TOMLINS , F. GUEST , ESQ . , SECRETARY . WRIGHT , THOMAS , ESQ . , F.S.A. YOUNG , CHARLES M. , ESQ . INTRODUCTION . STEPHEN GOSSON , the author of the ...
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... hart with abusing her lenitie , and stir Jupiter to anger to send us a storke that shal devoure us . How often hath her Majestie , with the grave advice of her whole Councel , set downe the limits of apparel to every degree , and how ...
... hart with abusing her lenitie , and stir Jupiter to anger to send us a storke that shal devoure us . How often hath her Majestie , with the grave advice of her whole Councel , set downe the limits of apparel to every degree , and how ...
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... MILMAN , REV . HENRY HART . TALFOURD , MR . SERGEANT , M.P. TOMLINS , F. GUEST , ESQ . , SECRETARY . WRIGHT , THOMAS , ESQ . , F.S.A. YOUNG , CHARLES M. , ESQ . INTRODUCTION . In the cursory sketch of the various publications.
... MILMAN , REV . HENRY HART . TALFOURD , MR . SERGEANT , M.P. TOMLINS , F. GUEST , ESQ . , SECRETARY . WRIGHT , THOMAS , ESQ . , F.S.A. YOUNG , CHARLES M. , ESQ . INTRODUCTION . In the cursory sketch of the various publications.
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... hart of Alexander , in so much that all his succeed- ing actions were meerly shaped after that patterne ; and it may be imagined that , had Achilles never lived , Alexander had never conquered the whole world . The like assertion may be ...
... hart of Alexander , in so much that all his succeed- ing actions were meerly shaped after that patterne ; and it may be imagined that , had Achilles never lived , Alexander had never conquered the whole world . The like assertion may be ...
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... hart , fighting with Hy- dra , murdering Geryon , slaughtering Diomed , wounding the Stymphalides , killing the Centaurs , pashing the lion , squeezing the dragon , dragging Cerberus in chaynes , and lastly , on his high pyramides ...
... hart , fighting with Hy- dra , murdering Geryon , slaughtering Diomed , wounding the Stymphalides , killing the Centaurs , pashing the lion , squeezing the dragon , dragging Cerberus in chaynes , and lastly , on his high pyramides ...
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Page 25 - ... light in them ; such pillows to their backs, that they take no hurt ; such masking in their ears, I know not what : such giving them pippins to pass the time ; such playing at foote saunt without cards ; such ticking, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning them home when the sports are ended...
Page 21 - ... so bewitching a thing is lively and well-spirited action, that it hath power to new-mold the harts of the spectators, and fashion them to the shape of any noble and notable attempt.
Page 62 - I know, much offended with M. Jaggard (that altogether unknowne to him) presumed to make so bold with his name.
Page 52 - Thirdly, plays have made the ignorant more apprehensive,* taught the unlearned the knowledge of many famous histories, instructed such as cannot read in the discovery* of all our English chronicles; and what man have you now of that weak capacity that cannot discourse of any notable thing recorded even from William the Conqueror, nay, from the landing of Brute, until this day...