The Rehearsal: With Illustrations from Previous Plays, EtcAlex. Murray, 1868 - 136 pages |
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... business , and that he had left his few honest servants in as good fortune as reputation , who never wronged him in his estate , nor flattered him in his faults , and thought they escaped well in not being oppressed under the ruins of ...
... business , and that he had left his few honest servants in as good fortune as reputation , who never wronged him in his estate , nor flattered him in his faults , and thought they escaped well in not being oppressed under the ruins of ...
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... Business fell On Absalom and his wise Achitophel : Thus , wicked but in will , of means bereft , He left not Faction , but of that was left . Dryden , writing - after Buckingham was dead and buried - his Dedication [ the subject of ...
... Business fell On Absalom and his wise Achitophel : Thus , wicked but in will , of means bereft , He left not Faction , but of that was left . Dryden , writing - after Buckingham was dead and buried - his Dedication [ the subject of ...
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... business doing ? JOHNS . I ne'er enquire after ' em . Thou know'ft my humour lyes another way . I love to please my self as much , and to trouble others as little as I can : and therefore do naturally avoid the company of those folemn ...
... business doing ? JOHNS . I ne'er enquire after ' em . Thou know'ft my humour lyes another way . I love to please my self as much , and to trouble others as little as I can : and therefore do naturally avoid the company of those folemn ...
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... Business , as the more ingenious paftime . SMI . I have heard , indeed , you have had lately many new Plays , and our Country - wits commend ' em . JOHNS . I , fo do fome of our City - wits too ; but they are of the new kind of Wits ...
... Business , as the more ingenious paftime . SMI . I have heard , indeed , you have had lately many new Plays , and our Country - wits commend ' em . JOHNS . I , fo do fome of our City - wits too ; but they are of the new kind of Wits ...
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... business so confiderable , as should keep me from your company . this fide . BAYES . Yes , here it is . No , cry you mercy : this is my book of Drama Common places ; the Mother of many other Plays . JOHNS . Drama Common places ! pray ...
... business so confiderable , as should keep me from your company . this fide . BAYES . Yes , here it is . No , cry you mercy : this is my book of Drama Common places ; the Mother of many other Plays . JOHNS . Drama Common places ! pray ...
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Act v. p. Battel BAYES becauſe Brentford buſineſs Cloris Colig Company conceipt Conquest of Granada D'Avenant Dance deſign Dryden Duke of Buckingham earl earl of Rutland edition Enter Exeunt Exit fame farce felf fhall fhew firſt fleep fome fuch fure Gentlemen George Villiers GERARD LANGBAINE himſelf Hoft Honour JOHNS juſt King King's King's Company Lardella laſt London lord Fairfax Love moſt Mufick muſt know Nakar never obſerve papyr Percy perſon Phab Phys Play Players pleaſe Plot Poets pray preſently Pret Prince Pretty-man Prince Volfcius printed Profe Prologue queſtion reaſon Rehearsal ſay SCENA Scene ſelf servant ſhall ſhe ſhould Siege of Rhodes ſome ſpeak Stage ſtate ſtay ſtill Theatre thee themſelves There's theſe things thoſe thou troth Tyrannick Love underſtand uſe Verſe Vols vow to gad we'l whiſper William Davenant writ write you'l