Representative English Dramas from Dryden to SheridanOxford University Press, American Branch, 1914 - 459 pages |
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... present knowledge of authors and their plays . It grapples with no difficult problems of origins and solves no riddles of dramatic evolution . It enters into no competition with histories of the English drama . Its mission is the humble ...
... present knowledge of authors and their plays . It grapples with no difficult problems of origins and solves no riddles of dramatic evolution . It enters into no competition with histories of the English drama . Its mission is the humble ...
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... present editors have unhesitatingly omitted the so - called " critical apparatus " of variant readings and proposed emendations , for the same reason that they have shunned archaic spelling and pointing - as being entirely out of ...
... present editors have unhesitatingly omitted the so - called " critical apparatus " of variant readings and proposed emendations , for the same reason that they have shunned archaic spelling and pointing - as being entirely out of ...
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... livered about a hundred years after the production of the play , does not differ essentially from that of the present . The heroic play was at best a short - lived species of drama , and the contemporary 4 THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA.
... livered about a hundred years after the production of the play , does not differ essentially from that of the present . The heroic play was at best a short - lived species of drama , and the contemporary 4 THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA.
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... present sums , the unwary unthrift's need , Boab . Tell Ferdinand , my right to it ap- You sold your kindness at a boundless rate , pears By long possession of eight hundred years : When first my ancestors from Afric sailed , In ...
... present sums , the unwary unthrift's need , Boab . Tell Ferdinand , my right to it ap- You sold your kindness at a boundless rate , pears By long possession of eight hundred years : When first my ancestors from Afric sailed , In ...
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... present state betrays my want of power ; But , when true courage is of force bereft , [ A shout within , and clashing of swords afar Patience , the noblest fortitude , is left . off . The sound goes farther off , and faintly dies ...
... present state betrays my want of power ; But , when true courage is of force bereft , [ A shout within , and clashing of swords afar Patience , the noblest fortitude , is left . off . The sound goes farther off , and faintly dies ...
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