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
... never ceased to converse ; and by this one step , which , according to our notions , and probably his own , was calculated to re- pair , in some measure , the injury which the lady's character had sus- tained , ruined both her and ...
... never ceased to converse ; and by this one step , which , according to our notions , and probably his own , was calculated to re- pair , in some measure , the injury which the lady's character had sus- tained , ruined both her and ...
Page xxxii
... never per- mits a doubt of it to escape him , and thus skilfully avoids the awkwardness of shaking the credit and diminishing the interest of his chief character ; for Perkin , and not Henry , is the hero of the play . More will be ...
... never per- mits a doubt of it to escape him , and thus skilfully avoids the awkwardness of shaking the credit and diminishing the interest of his chief character ; for Perkin , and not Henry , is the hero of the play . More will be ...
Page xxxiii
... never aimed at any pecuniary advantage . Granted : but he forgets that he had no need of it ; and there is something in this implied triumph over his neces- sitous contemporaries , which , to say the best of it , is to be praised ...
... never aimed at any pecuniary advantage . Granted : but he forgets that he had no need of it ; and there is something in this implied triumph over his neces- sitous contemporaries , which , to say the best of it , is to be praised ...
Page xxxvi
... never yet been rendered to their independence on one another generally speaking , they stand insulated and alone , and draw , each in his station , from their own stores . Whether it be , that poetry in that age " Wanton'd as in its ...
... never yet been rendered to their independence on one another generally speaking , they stand insulated and alone , and draw , each in his station , from their own stores . Whether it be , that poetry in that age " Wanton'd as in its ...
Page xl
... never reach again , the writers themselves possessed no sway whatever over the feelings of the people ; while , at a subsequent period , when the power of the stage for good and evil was understood , it was turned wholly to the purposes ...
... never reach again , the writers themselves possessed no sway whatever over the feelings of the people ; while , at a subsequent period , when the power of the stage for good and evil was understood , it was turned wholly to the purposes ...
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