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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... Earl of Devon- * As one of Ben Jonson's beautiful and magnificent masks has in some degree connected the names of this ill - fated pair with our dramatic history , a short account of them , for which the reader is indebted to the former ...
... Earl of Devon- * As one of Ben Jonson's beautiful and magnificent masks has in some degree connected the names of this ill - fated pair with our dramatic history , a short account of them , for which the reader is indebted to the former ...
Page xix
... earl's heart ; for his majesty told him that he had purchased a fair woman with a black soul . " Hearts are not always broken in the way supposed ; but there was more than enough to depress the lofty spirit of this great earl in the ...
... earl's heart ; for his majesty told him that he had purchased a fair woman with a black soul . " Hearts are not always broken in the way supposed ; but there was more than enough to depress the lofty spirit of this great earl in the ...
Page xx
... earl , as if it had been attended with some failure of pro- fessional hope to himself . Elegies " and " Me- morials " were sufficiently common at that period , and indeed long after it ; but the authors stead- fastly looked to the ...
... earl , as if it had been attended with some failure of pro- fessional hope to himself . Elegies " and " Me- morials " were sufficiently common at that period , and indeed long after it ; but the authors stead- fastly looked to the ...
Page xxvi
... of his dramas at short intervals . The present play has neither prologue nor epilogue ; but in the * This title has been substituted for a much coarser one . dedication to the Earl of Peterborough , who had openly xxvi INTRODUCTION .
... of his dramas at short intervals . The present play has neither prologue nor epilogue ; but in the * This title has been substituted for a much coarser one . dedication to the Earl of Peterborough , who had openly xxvi INTRODUCTION .
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... Earl of Peterborough , who had openly manifested his satisfaction with the piece on its first appearance ( when the actors exerted themselves with such success as to call for a separate acknowledgment ) , Ford terms it " the first ...
... Earl of Peterborough , who had openly manifested his satisfaction with the piece on its first appearance ( when the actors exerted themselves with such success as to call for a separate acknowledgment ) , Ford terms it " the first ...
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