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
... 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 commonly abstain from ...
... 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 commonly abstain from ...
Page xvii
... poet was in the commission of the peace . Whether this honourable situation was procured for him by the interest of his wife's father , the famous Lord Chief Justice Popham , cannot be told ; it may , however , be reasonably surmised ...
... poet was in the commission of the peace . Whether this honourable situation was procured for him by the interest of his wife's father , the famous Lord Chief Justice Popham , cannot be told ; it may , however , be reasonably surmised ...
Page xviii
... poet had been preceded in his legal studies by his cousin John Ford , son of an elder brother of his father's family , to whom he appears to have looked up with much respect , and to have borne an almost fraternal affection ; this ...
... poet had been preceded in his legal studies by his cousin John Ford , son of an elder brother of his father's family , to whom he appears to have looked up with much respect , and to have borne an almost fraternal affection ; this ...
Page xx
... poet sets out with affirm- ing ( and he deserves the fullest credit ) that his muse was unfeed . Be this as it may , it argued no little spirit in him to advocate an unpopular cause , and step forward in the sanguine expectation of ...
... poet sets out with affirm- ing ( and he deserves the fullest credit ) that his muse was unfeed . Be this as it may , it argued no little spirit in him to advocate an unpopular cause , and step forward in the sanguine expectation of ...
Page xxi
... circumstance which he never forgets , nor ever suffers his patrons to forget , as if he feared to pass with them more for a poet than a man of business . But he had yet another resource . He had ap- INTRODUCTION . xxi.
... circumstance which he never forgets , nor ever suffers his patrons to forget , as if he feared to pass with them more for a poet than a man of business . But he had yet another resource . He had ap- INTRODUCTION . xxi.
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