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... Restoration dramatists , Chapman combined in the production of two plays , a tragedy and a comedy . The latter , called The Ball ( licensed 1632 , printed 1639 ) , will be more appropriately noticed among Shirley's plays , while as to ...
... Restoration dramatists , Chapman combined in the production of two plays , a tragedy and a comedy . The latter , called The Ball ( licensed 1632 , printed 1639 ) , will be more appropriately noticed among Shirley's plays , while as to ...
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... Restoration ; but he has since been less remembered than his deserts would have warranted . At the same time , as will appear from the following brief review of his works , he was perhaps happiest in a branch of dramatic literature ...
... Restoration ; but he has since been less remembered than his deserts would have warranted . At the same time , as will appear from the following brief review of his works , he was perhaps happiest in a branch of dramatic literature ...
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... Restoration , and the favour with which it was again re- ceived is attested by Pepys 2. The humour of the scenes in the private madhouse will be less acceptable to a modern reader , who is unable to place himself on the standpoint of an ...
... Restoration , and the favour with which it was again re- ceived is attested by Pepys 2. The humour of the scenes in the private madhouse will be less acceptable to a modern reader , who is unable to place himself on the standpoint of an ...
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... Restoration dramatists seized upon this comedy for partial adaptation in one of the worst of her outrages upon decency ; in Mrs. Aphra Behn's City Heiress the plot , however , takes a different end ; and Sir Bounteous Progress becomes ...
... Restoration dramatists seized upon this comedy for partial adaptation in one of the worst of her outrages upon decency ; in Mrs. Aphra Behn's City Heiress the plot , however , takes a different end ; and Sir Bounteous Progress becomes ...
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... Restoration drama that , like the Restoration drama , it exhibits any general tendency towards sympathy with vice , it would be necessary to adopt a very different tone from that which seems just in criticising its productions . Now ...
... Restoration drama that , like the Restoration drama , it exhibits any general tendency towards sympathy with vice , it would be necessary to adopt a very different tone from that which seems just in criticising its productions . Now ...
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Page 230 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Page 527 - O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy! Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordained above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love!
Page 204 - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
Page 78 - Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent. They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Page 77 - Those originate deeds of blood and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's, he is spell-bound. That meeting sways his destiny. He can never break the fascination. These witches can hurt the body ; those have power over the soul.