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Pagina 12
... play itself is without the article , " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry shark- ing fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a prin- cipal character in it.-H. on the stage with great severity , and was after- 12 ...
... play itself is without the article , " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry shark- ing fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a prin- cipal character in it.-H. on the stage with great severity , and was after- 12 ...
Pagina 13
... play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
Pagina 14
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
Pagina 40
... plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain and inconstancy , produce no correspondence of emotion . His poetical account of the virtues of plants and colours of ...
... plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain and inconstancy , produce no correspondence of emotion . His poetical account of the virtues of plants and colours of ...
Pagina 41
... new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuit . able to the original , as- The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt COWLEY . 41.
... new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuit . able to the original , as- The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt COWLEY . 41.
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