The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1Cadell and Company, 1834 - Chivalry |
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... OF TRIERMAIN , HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS , and other Poems . The Illustra- tions - SKIDDA , and MAYBURgh . Vol XII . THE DRAMAS . The Illustrations - BERWICK , and ABBOTSFORD . 8 PUBLISHED BY ROBERT CADELL , EDINBURGH . In seven.
... OF TRIERMAIN , HAROLD THE DAUNTLESS , and other Poems . The Illustra- tions - SKIDDA , and MAYBURgh . Vol XII . THE DRAMAS . The Illustrations - BERWICK , and ABBOTSFORD . 8 PUBLISHED BY ROBERT CADELL , EDINBURGH . In seven.
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... Drama at the Restoration 99 Heroic Plays - Comedies of Intrigue - Commence- ment of Dryden's Dramatic Career - The Wild Gal- lant - Rival Ladies - Indian Queen and Emperor- Dryden's Marriage - Essay on Dramatic Poetry , and subsequent ...
... Drama at the Restoration 99 Heroic Plays - Comedies of Intrigue - Commence- ment of Dryden's Dramatic Career - The Wild Gal- lant - Rival Ladies - Indian Queen and Emperor- Dryden's Marriage - Essay on Dramatic Poetry , and subsequent ...
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... dramas ascribed to him . Among these we may reckon Massinger , who approached to Shakspeare in dignity ; Beaumont and Fletcher , who surpassed him in drawing female characters , and those of polite and courtly life ; and Jonson , who ...
... dramas ascribed to him . Among these we may reckon Massinger , who approached to Shakspeare in dignity ; Beaumont and Fletcher , who surpassed him in drawing female characters , and those of polite and courtly life ; and Jonson , who ...
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... drama , it is true , was the branch of poetry most successfully cultivated ; for it afforded the most ready appeal to the public taste . The number of theatres then open in all parts of the city , secured to the adventurous poet the ...
... drama , it is true , was the branch of poetry most successfully cultivated ; for it afforded the most ready appeal to the public taste . The number of theatres then open in all parts of the city , secured to the adventurous poet the ...
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... dramatic essay , did not here apply . The elegy on Cromwell , although doubtless sufficiently faulty , contained symptoms of a regenerating taste ; and , politically considered , although a panegyric on an usurper , the topics of praise ...
... dramatic essay , did not here apply . The elegy on Cromwell , although doubtless sufficiently faulty , contained symptoms of a regenerating taste ; and , politically considered , although a panegyric on an usurper , the topics of praise ...
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