pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaH. Baldwin, 1790 |
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... hath coft me for the leaffe , 240 . 520 . 120 . £ .880 . ' It was a round brick building , and its dimenfions may be conjectured from the following advertisement in The Mercurius Politicus , Tuesday Feb. 14 , to Tuesday Feb. 21 , 1661 ...
... hath coft me for the leaffe , 240 . 520 . 120 . £ .880 . ' It was a round brick building , and its dimenfions may be conjectured from the following advertisement in The Mercurius Politicus , Tuesday Feb. 14 , to Tuesday Feb. 21 , 1661 ...
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... hath therein obferved a fpecial decorum , the place being as dirty as Smithfield , and as finking every whit . " - Indu & licn to Bartholomew Fair . It appears from an old pamphlet entitled Holland's Leaguer , printed in quarto in 1632 ...
... hath therein obferved a fpecial decorum , the place being as dirty as Smithfield , and as finking every whit . " - Indu & licn to Bartholomew Fair . It appears from an old pamphlet entitled Holland's Leaguer , printed in quarto in 1632 ...
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... hath happened this week at the Banks fide . The Kings Players had a new play called All is true , reprefenting fame principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth , which was fet forth with many extraordinary circumftances of pomp ...
... hath happened this week at the Banks fide . The Kings Players had a new play called All is true , reprefenting fame principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth , which was fet forth with many extraordinary circumftances of pomp ...
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... hath by rubbing got cullor into his cheeks , and is ready to give the trumpets their cue , that he's upon the point to enter . " Decker's Guls Hornebook , 1609 . See the Induction to Cynthia's Revels , 1601 : 1. Child as beft fuited to ...
... hath by rubbing got cullor into his cheeks , and is ready to give the trumpets their cue , that he's upon the point to enter . " Decker's Guls Hornebook , 1609 . See the Induction to Cynthia's Revels , 1601 : 1. Child as beft fuited to ...
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... hath him sped , " To over - take his over - running head.- " Is't not sweet pride , when men their crownes must shade " With that which jerks the hams of every jade ; " Or floor - strow'd locks from off the barber's fhears ? " But waxen ...
... hath him sped , " To over - take his over - running head.- " Is't not sweet pride , when men their crownes must shade " With that which jerks the hams of every jade ; " Or floor - strow'd locks from off the barber's fhears ? " But waxen ...
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Página 57 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Página 56 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 19 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 63 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Página 9 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Página 56 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Página 71 - There was a great engine at the lower end of the room, which had motion, and in it were the images of seahorses, with other terrible fishes, which were ridden by Moors. The indecorum was, that there was all fish and no water.
Página 68 - ... the player when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.