The Dramatic Works of John Ford: With an Introduction, and Notes Critical and Explanatory, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - English drama |
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Page xxiv
... scenes of terror and delight , were at our poet's command , call for them as he might a black shaggy rug , in imitation of a dog's skin , into which a clever imp was thrust , and taught to walk on all fours , with permission to relieve ...
... scenes of terror and delight , were at our poet's command , call for them as he might a black shaggy rug , in imitation of a dog's skin , into which a clever imp was thrust , and taught to walk on all fours , with permission to relieve ...
Page xxviii
... scene of a tragedy like this ; and he probably means no more than that it was extant in some French or Italian ... scenes , many superior to it could not be found ; in truth , it seems scarcely possible to turn back and review the ...
... scene of a tragedy like this ; and he probably means no more than that it was extant in some French or Italian ... scenes , many superior to it could not be found ; in truth , it seems scarcely possible to turn back and review the ...
Page xxix
... scenes favourable to the dis- play of the writer's powers beautifully executed , it is impossible to deny ; but the plot is altogether defective ; and the characters proceed from error to error , and from crime to crime , till they ...
... scenes favourable to the dis- play of the writer's powers beautifully executed , it is impossible to deny ; but the plot is altogether defective ; and the characters proceed from error to error , and from crime to crime , till they ...
Page xxx
... scenes . The admirers of Ford had by this time , ap- parently , supped full of horrors . Three tragedies of the deepest kind in rapid succession were probably as many as the stage would then endure from him ; and in a hour not ...
... scenes . The admirers of Ford had by this time , ap- parently , supped full of horrors . Three tragedies of the deepest kind in rapid succession were probably as many as the stage would then endure from him ; and in a hour not ...
Page xxxi
... ac- cords with the characters of the " graced persons " who occupy the scene . The uncommon felicity with which Ford has * Monthly Review . sustained the part of Warbeck has been elsewhere noticed ; INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
... ac- cords with the characters of the " graced persons " who occupy the scene . The uncommon felicity with which Ford has * Monthly Review . sustained the part of Warbeck has been elsewhere noticed ; INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
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