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... play- ) loving public is divided , the producer finds an immense fortune awaiting him . more money than is represented by the united fortunes of Scott , Thackeray , and Dickens . " How this computation is arrived at we know not , but we ...
... play- ) loving public is divided , the producer finds an immense fortune awaiting him . more money than is represented by the united fortunes of Scott , Thackeray , and Dickens . " How this computation is arrived at we know not , but we ...
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... Play ; Gossip . The ATHENEUM for December 6 contains Articles on SIR LESLIE STEPHEN'S STUDIES in BIOGRAPHY . MR . LANG on the GOWRIE MYSTERY . The REAL MOROCCO in FICTION . STATE EXPERIMENTS in AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND . NEW NOVELS ...
... Play ; Gossip . The ATHENEUM for December 6 contains Articles on SIR LESLIE STEPHEN'S STUDIES in BIOGRAPHY . MR . LANG on the GOWRIE MYSTERY . The REAL MOROCCO in FICTION . STATE EXPERIMENTS in AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND . NEW NOVELS ...
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... play cards , and their game was called bzik . The French men got to like the game ; they could pronounce the word , but in writing it down according to French orthography it became bezique . Thus this favourite game of the French ...
... play cards , and their game was called bzik . The French men got to like the game ; they could pronounce the word , but in writing it down according to French orthography it became bezique . Thus this favourite game of the French ...
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... Play ' ( London , 1902 ) , the word lesing is said to be equal to " loosing , releasing ; so without lesing ' means ' inevitably . ' " The phrase re- ferred to runs thus : " That is to thy damna- tion without lesing . " Would not the ...
... Play ' ( London , 1902 ) , the word lesing is said to be equal to " loosing , releasing ; so without lesing ' means ' inevitably . ' " The phrase re- ferred to runs thus : " That is to thy damna- tion without lesing . " Would not the ...
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... Play in One Act , ' by Mrs. W. K. Clifford , is , like much modern dramatic work , hopelessly gloomy . Lady Guendolen Ramsden decides that society is worse than it was . It is the upper classes who are most severely condemned for ...
... Play in One Act , ' by Mrs. W. K. Clifford , is , like much modern dramatic work , hopelessly gloomy . Lady Guendolen Ramsden decides that society is worse than it was . It is the upper classes who are most severely condemned for ...
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Página 163 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 64 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 336 - Shakespeare; and however others are now generally preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation was at highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him.
Página 305 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Página 325 - The Most High and Mightie Prince, James, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith.
Página 336 - But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him. No man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets, Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Página 336 - Jonson's: the reason is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.
Página 405 - As slow our ship her foamy track Against the wind was cleaving, Her trembling pennant still look'd back To that dear isle 'twas leaving. So loath we part from all we love, From all the links that bind us ; So turn our hearts as on we rove, To those we've left behind us.
Página 163 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.