Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 ...: To which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 - 576 ページ |
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... Prynne , the last mystery offered to public view in England was in the reign of James I. , at Ely - house , Holborn , in compliment to Gondomar the Spanish ambas- sador . Amongst the other blessings introduced by printing may perhaps be ...
... Prynne , the last mystery offered to public view in England was in the reign of James I. , at Ely - house , Holborn , in compliment to Gondomar the Spanish ambas- sador . Amongst the other blessings introduced by printing may perhaps be ...
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... Prynne would remove those doubts by his charging them with the " evil custom and worse example of admitting common actors and interludes upon their two grand festivals to recre- ate ate themselves withal , notwithstanding the statute of ...
... Prynne would remove those doubts by his charging them with the " evil custom and worse example of admitting common actors and interludes upon their two grand festivals to recre- ate ate themselves withal , notwithstanding the statute of ...
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... Prynne asserts in his " Histrio - mastix , " 1633 , as fanatical ' prejudice and spleen , as he really pointed out many gross and shocking abuses , in speaking of the profaneness of the English stage , which were overlooked or not ...
... Prynne asserts in his " Histrio - mastix , " 1633 , as fanatical ' prejudice and spleen , as he really pointed out many gross and shocking abuses , in speaking of the profaneness of the English stage , which were overlooked or not ...
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... Prynne , or any other vehement censurer of them . At the same time we must admit , that an author who wrote a Refutation of an Apology for Actors , under the signature of I. G. , came in all probability very near a just description of ...
... Prynne , or any other vehement censurer of them . At the same time we must admit , that an author who wrote a Refutation of an Apology for Actors , under the signature of I. G. , came in all probability very near a just description of ...
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... Prynne's work , that our old play - wrights were accustomed to derive most of the plots of their representations from the Heathen Mythology . " In all our stage - plays , " says this zealot , " we have most usually the parts and persons ...
... Prynne's work , that our old play - wrights were accustomed to derive most of the plots of their representations from the Heathen Mythology . " In all our stage - plays , " says this zealot , " we have most usually the parts and persons ...
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81 ページ - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
162 ページ - And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
161 ページ - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.
153 ページ - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
192 ページ - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
30 ページ - ... drunkenness, and breeds a number of idle and discontented speeches in their alehouses : for, when shall the common people have leave to exercise, if not upon the Sundays and holidays ? Seeing they must apply their labour, and win their living in all working days.
189 ページ - His banished gods restored to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line ; From whence the race of Alban fathers come And the long glories of majestic Rome.
153 ページ - But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there! Shine forth, thou Star of poets, and with rage Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night, And despairs day, but for thy volume's light.
181 ページ - IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ; neither my mind, nor my body, nor my fortune, allow me any materials for that vanity. It is sufficient for my own contentment, that they have preserved me...
187 ページ - Hell, Earth, Chaos, all; the argument Held me a while misdoubting his intent, That he would ruin (for I saw him strong) The sacred truths to fable and old song (So...