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 xvi
... nature of our undertaking may best seem to require . It is incidentally observed by Dr. Farmer in his Essay on Shakspeare , " that play - writing in that poet's days was scarcely thought a creditable em- ploy ; " and it would seem as if ...
... nature of our undertaking may best seem to require . It is incidentally observed by Dr. Farmer in his Essay on Shakspeare , " that play - writing in that poet's days was scarcely thought a creditable em- ploy ; " and it would seem as if ...
Page xxvii
... natural state would glare with salutary and repulsive horror . " The Broken Heart " was given to the press in the same year as the foregoing piece ( 1633 ) . It was brought out at the Black Friars ; but the date of its appearance is not ...
... natural state would glare with salutary and repulsive horror . " The Broken Heart " was given to the press in the same year as the foregoing piece ( 1633 ) . It was brought out at the Black Friars ; but the date of its appearance is not ...
Page xlii
... nature Ford's chief employment at the Temple was , we have no means of ascertaining . That he was not called to the bar may be fairly surmised , as he never makes the slightest allusion to his pleadings ; and his anxious disavowals to ...
... nature Ford's chief employment at the Temple was , we have no means of ascertaining . That he was not called to the bar may be fairly surmised , as he never makes the slightest allusion to his pleadings ; and his anxious disavowals to ...
Page xliii
... nature ; but there is - or rather was - an indistinct tradition among his neighbours , that he married and had children . A person of our poet's char- acter and fortune could not , indeed , have had far to seek for a worthy partner ...
... nature ; but there is - or rather was - an indistinct tradition among his neighbours , that he married and had children . A person of our poet's char- acter and fortune could not , indeed , have had far to seek for a worthy partner ...
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... nature of the subject . But I am silent : -now appears a sun , Whose shadow I adore . Enter AMETHUS , Sophronos , and Attendants . Men . My honour'd father ! Soph . From mine eyes , son , son of my care , my love , The joys that bid ...
... nature of the subject . But I am silent : -now appears a sun , Whose shadow I adore . Enter AMETHUS , Sophronos , and Attendants . Men . My honour'd father ! Soph . From mine eyes , son , son of my care , my love , The joys that bid ...
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