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... better . It is near a century since the Rehearsal was first printed ; and who at this distance of time could hope to recover any considerable mat- ters of explanation , that had escaped former inquirers ? . No such sanguine expectations ...
... better . It is near a century since the Rehearsal was first printed ; and who at this distance of time could hope to recover any considerable mat- ters of explanation , that had escaped former inquirers ? . No such sanguine expectations ...
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... better than my last and you know well enough how that took . In fine , it shall read , and write , and act , and plot , and fhew , ay , and pit , box and gallery , I gad , with any Play in Europe . This morning is its laft Rehearsal ...
... better than my last and you know well enough how that took . In fine , it shall read , and write , and act , and plot , and fhew , ay , and pit , box and gallery , I gad , with any Play in Europe . This morning is its laft Rehearsal ...
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... better than the old plain way . For , look you , Sir , the grand defign upon the Stage is to keep the Auditors in fufpence ; for to ghefs presently at the plot , and the fence , tires ' em before the end of the first Act : now , here ...
... better than the old plain way . For , look you , Sir , the grand defign upon the Stage is to keep the Auditors in fufpence ; for to ghefs presently at the plot , and the fence , tires ' em before the end of the first Act : now , here ...
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... better when you see it . [ Exit , to call the Players . SMI . I find the Author will be very much oblig'd to the Players , if they can make any fence of this . Enter BAYES . BAYES . NOW , Gentlemen , I would fain ask your opinion of one ...
... better when you see it . [ Exit , to call the Players . SMI . I find the Author will be very much oblig'd to the Players , if they can make any fence of this . Enter BAYES . BAYES . NOW , Gentlemen , I would fain ask your opinion of one ...
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... better ; because then they were engag'd : for , let a man write never fo well , there are , now - a- days , a fort of persons , they call Critiques , that , I gad , have no more wit in ' em than fo many Hobby - horses ; but they'l laugh ...
... better ; because then they were engag'd : for , let a man write never fo well , there are , now - a- days , a fort of persons , they call Critiques , that , I gad , have no more wit in ' em than fo many Hobby - horses ; but they'l laugh ...
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Page 12 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 12 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
Page 12 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking.
Page 12 - Neither is it true, that this fineness of raillery is offensive. A witty man is tickled while he is hurt in this manner, and a fool feels it not.
Page 22 - Oh read ouer D. John Bridges, for it is a worthy worke : Or an epitome of the fyrste Booke of that right worshipfull volume, written against the Puritanes, in the defence of the noble cleargie, by as worshipfull a prieste, John Bridges, Presbyter, Priest or elder, doctor of Diuilitie, and Deane of Sarum.
Page 12 - The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes : The first of POETS and POESIE, the second of PROPORTION, the third of ORNAMENT.
Page 134 - With sense that might be understood with ease; They every scene with so much wit did store That who brought any in, went out with more: But this new way of wit does so surprise, Men lose their wits in wond'ring where it lies.
Page 14 - A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.
Page 20 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.
Page 98 - I'll lead you thence to melancholy groves, And there repeat the scenes of our past loves. At night I will within your curtains peep; With empty arms embrace you while you sleep...