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
... play - writing in that poet's days was scarcely thought a creditable em- ploy ; " and it would seem as if the dramatic poets themselves entertained some such idea as Farmer mentions ; for , either from mortification or humility , they ...
... play - writing in that poet's days was scarcely thought a creditable em- ploy ; " and it would seem as if the dramatic poets themselves entertained some such idea as Farmer mentions ; for , either from mortification or humility , they ...
Page xxii
... plays which have come down to us , and in more , perhaps , which remain to be discovered , Of these joint ... play ( The Lover's Melancholy ) , says , " Nor seek I praise for thee , when thine own pen Hath forced a praise long ...
... plays which have come down to us , and in more , perhaps , which remain to be discovered , Of these joint ... play ( The Lover's Melancholy ) , says , " Nor seek I praise for thee , when thine own pen Hath forced a praise long ...
Page xxiv
... plays of hell broke - up , and holyday devils dancing ad libitum through alternate scenes of terror and delight , were at our poet's command , call for them as he might a black shaggy rug , in imitation of a dog's skin , into which a ...
... plays of hell broke - up , and holyday devils dancing ad libitum through alternate scenes of terror and delight , were at our poet's command , call for them as he might a black shaggy rug , in imitation of a dog's skin , into which a ...
Page xxvi
... play to the reader may soon grow out of fashion with him . " He certainly evinced no great degree of earnestness to appear again before the public , as the next play , " Annabella and Giovanni , " * was not given to the press till ...
... play to the reader may soon grow out of fashion with him . " He certainly evinced no great degree of earnestness to appear again before the public , as the next play , " Annabella and Giovanni , " * was not given to the press till ...
Page xxvii
... play before us could scarcely be ; as ( to omit all mention of those in which he joined with Decker ) one of his dramas * was performed at court nearly twenty years before the date of the present , which bears besides tokens of a mind ...
... play before us could scarcely be ; as ( to omit all mention of those in which he joined with Decker ) one of his dramas * was performed at court nearly twenty years before the date of the present , which bears besides tokens of a mind ...
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