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 xvii
... truth , he was sufficiently ostentatious in his earliest work , though he became more reserved when age and experience had enabled him to compare his attainments with those of his contemporaries . It appears from Rymer's FÅ“dera , * that ...
... truth , he was sufficiently ostentatious in his earliest work , though he became more reserved when age and experience had enabled him to compare his attainments with those of his contemporaries . It appears from Rymer's FÅ“dera , * that ...
Page xviii
... truth , the whole of his conduct with regard to that agitated country was meritorious in the highest degree , and as such fully acknowledged by her as well as by James , who , on his accession , conferred on him the same important ...
... truth , the whole of his conduct with regard to that agitated country was meritorious in the highest degree , and as such fully acknowledged by her as well as by James , who , on his accession , conferred on him the same important ...
Page xxi
... truth she does exhibit no unfavourable symptom of good sense in " confining her thoughts to elder merits , " instead of " solacing " her youthful admirer , who , at the period of first taking the infection into his eye , could not have ...
... truth she does exhibit no unfavourable symptom of good sense in " confining her thoughts to elder merits , " instead of " solacing " her youthful admirer , who , at the period of first taking the infection into his eye , could not have ...
Page xxvii
... truth too seductive for the subject , and flings a soft and soothing light over what , in its natural state would glare with salutary and repulsive horror . " The Broken Heart " was given to the press in the same year as the foregoing ...
... truth too seductive for the subject , and flings a soft and soothing light over what , in its natural state would glare with salutary and repulsive horror . " The Broken Heart " was given to the press in the same year as the foregoing ...
Page xxviii
... truth . " He could not be so ignorant of history as to sup- pose that Sparta was ever the scene of a tragedy like this ; and he probably means no more than that it was extant in some French or Italian collec- tion of tales . But ...
... truth . " He could not be so ignorant of history as to sup- pose that Sparta was ever the scene of a tragedy like this ; and he probably means no more than that it was extant in some French or Italian collec- tion of tales . But ...
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