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Page 71
... drama . 71 The dates of most of Middleton's plays are so absolutely His plays . uncertain , that they may without inconvenience be classed without any reference to chronological order . They seem ( exclusively of the masks and pageants ) ...
... drama . 71 The dates of most of Middleton's plays are so absolutely His plays . uncertain , that they may without inconvenience be classed without any reference to chronological order . They seem ( exclusively of the masks and pageants ) ...
Page 107
... drama known to the stage . His literary activity was not however exhausted by his labours in this direction ... Drama , p . 65 ) . * Platen in Die Verhängnissvolle Gabel ( of Kotzebue ) — ' Und war ein Held an Fruchtbarkeit , gleich ...
... drama known to the stage . His literary activity was not however exhausted by his labours in this direction ... Drama , p . 65 ) . * Platen in Die Verhängnissvolle Gabel ( of Kotzebue ) — ' Und war ein Held an Fruchtbarkeit , gleich ...
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... dramatic entertainment . Happily for him , a taste had formed itself His pathos for the dramatic treatment of domestic stories ; and in the works which he produced on subjects of this description his drama . tact as a playwright was ...
... dramatic entertainment . Happily for him , a taste had formed itself His pathos for the dramatic treatment of domestic stories ; and in the works which he produced on subjects of this description his drama . tact as a playwright was ...
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... drama of the type of The Witch of Edmonton , more powerful in its conception than in its execution , which is very lengthy . It contains what appears to be a reminis- cence from Othello 6 . Finally , to the popular drama of this period ...
... drama of the type of The Witch of Edmonton , more powerful in its conception than in its execution , which is very lengthy . It contains what appears to be a reminis- cence from Othello 6 . Finally , to the popular drama of this period ...
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... Drama . The steady growth of the popular drama seems to hav tended to narrow rather than widen the scope of thi species of entertainments in the latter years of Queer Elisabeth . They were very soon to attain to a more set tled form ...
... Drama . The steady growth of the popular drama seems to hav tended to narrow rather than widen the scope of thi species of entertainments in the latter years of Queer Elisabeth . They were very soon to attain to a more set tled form ...
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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.