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 xix
... court , and the estimation of the public . " The king , " says Sanderson , " was so much displeased thereat , as it broke the earl's heart ; for his majesty told him that he had purchased a fair woman with a black soul . " Hearts are ...
... court , and the estimation of the public . " The king , " says Sanderson , " was so much displeased thereat , as it broke the earl's heart ; for his majesty told him that he had purchased a fair woman with a black soul . " Hearts are ...
Page xxvii
... court nearly twenty years before the date of the present , which bears besides tokens of a mind habituated to deep and solemn musings , and formed by long and severe practice to a style of composition at once ardent and impressive . Of ...
... court nearly twenty years before the date of the present , which bears besides tokens of a mind habituated to deep and solemn musings , and formed by long and severe practice to a style of composition at once ardent and impressive . Of ...
Page xxxii
... court the public ; for nothing is heard of him till 1638 ( with the single exception of a warm eulogium to the " memory of the best of poets , Ben Jonson , " who died in the preceding * Fenn's Letters , vol . v . p . 427 . year ) , when ...
... court the public ; for nothing is heard of him till 1638 ( with the single exception of a warm eulogium to the " memory of the best of poets , Ben Jonson , " who died in the preceding * Fenn's Letters , vol . v . p . 427 . year ) , when ...
Page xl
... court to the stage , -from the stage to the people , and none escape the contagion . It has been generally assumed that our poet died almost immediately after the appearance of the Lady's Trial , but for what cause , except that xl ...
... court to the stage , -from the stage to the people , and none escape the contagion . It has been generally assumed that our poet died almost immediately after the appearance of the Lady's Trial , but for what cause , except that xl ...
Page 46
... court awoke less friendly designs in the heart of the monarch , and it was found necessary to steal away and convey to a distant coun- try the object of his violent passion . A deep melancholy seizes on Palador at the loss of his ...
... court awoke less friendly designs in the heart of the monarch , and it was found necessary to steal away and convey to a distant coun- try the object of his violent passion . A deep melancholy seizes on Palador at the loss of his ...
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