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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... honour , and held a command in the fleet which defeated the Spanish armada . His extraordinary merits did not escape the quick eye of Elizabeth , who gave him various tokens of her favour , and thus exposed him to the envy of Essex . In ...
... honour , and held a command in the fleet which defeated the Spanish armada . His extraordinary merits did not escape the quick eye of Elizabeth , who gave him various tokens of her favour , and thus exposed him to the envy of Essex . In ...
Page xxv
... honoured friends of that noble society , " to his first acknowledged piece , the Lover's Melancholy . There is an affectation of modesty in the dedica- tion , which , when the writer's age is considered ( for he was now in the full ...
... honoured friends of that noble society , " to his first acknowledged piece , the Lover's Melancholy . There is an affectation of modesty in the dedica- tion , which , when the writer's age is considered ( for he was now in the full ...
Page xxxv
... honour of Adurni in the former , like that of Troylo in the latter , ultimately vindicated by an unlooked - for marriage . Feeble and imperfect , however , as the plot of the " Lady's Trial " is , and trifling as some of the characters ...
... honour of Adurni in the former , like that of Troylo in the latter , ultimately vindicated by an unlooked - for marriage . Feeble and imperfect , however , as the plot of the " Lady's Trial " is , and trifling as some of the characters ...
Page xl
... honoured - popular , but not influential . It is not a little mortifying to reflect , that while dramatic poetry towered in its pride of place , and long sustained itself at an elevation which it will never reach again , the writers ...
... honoured - popular , but not influential . It is not a little mortifying to reflect , that while dramatic poetry towered in its pride of place , and long sustained itself at an elevation which it will never reach again , the writers ...
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... honours , becomes bereft of reason , and remains a prisoner to his castle , under the care of his other daughter , the tender - hearted and faithful Cleophila . The author of all this mischief shortly after dies ; but , at the time the ...
... honours , becomes bereft of reason , and remains a prisoner to his castle , under the care of his other daughter , the tender - hearted and faithful Cleophila . The author of all this mischief shortly after dies ; but , at the time the ...
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