English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 Seiten |
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... stage too like the theatres where they fight prizes . For what is more ridiculous than to represent an army with a drum and five men behind it ; all which the hero of the other side is to drive in before him ; or to see a duel fought ...
... stage too like the theatres where they fight prizes . For what is more ridiculous than to represent an army with a drum and five men behind it ; all which the hero of the other side is to drive in before him ; or to see a duel fought ...
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... stage , if the dis- courses have been long . I must therefore have stronger arguments , ere I am convinced that com- passion and mirth in the same subject destroy each other ; and in the meantime cannot but conclude , to the honour of ...
... stage , if the dis- courses have been long . I must therefore have stronger arguments , ere I am convinced that com- passion and mirth in the same subject destroy each other ; and in the meantime cannot but conclude , to the honour of ...
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... stage , it could not meet with its deserved success . But though the performance was denied the theatre , it brought its author on the public stage of life . For persons in power inquiring soon after of the head of his college for a ...
... stage , it could not meet with its deserved success . But though the performance was denied the theatre , it brought its author on the public stage of life . For persons in power inquiring soon after of the head of his college for a ...
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