Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 2C. Knight & Company, 1845 - English language |
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... piece ; and his servant , Matthew Merrygreek , a kind of flesh - and - blood repre- sentative of the Vice of the old moral - plays - are strongly discriminated , and drawn altogether with much force and spirit . The story is not very ...
... piece ; and his servant , Matthew Merrygreek , a kind of flesh - and - blood repre- sentative of the Vice of the old moral - plays - are strongly discriminated , and drawn altogether with much force and spirit . The story is not very ...
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... piece was the production , in all probability , of a clergyman at least , if not of one who afterwards became a bishop , and that it was certainly represented before a learned and grave university . There is nothing of the same high ...
... piece was the production , in all probability , of a clergyman at least , if not of one who afterwards became a bishop , and that it was certainly represented before a learned and grave university . There is nothing of the same high ...
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... piece we are now con- sidering . If so , this fact affords an additional presumption that Gammer Gurton's Needle was printed , or at least written , some years before the date of the earliest edition of it row extant . Yet came my foote ...
... piece we are now con- sidering . If so , this fact affords an additional presumption that Gammer Gurton's Needle was printed , or at least written , some years before the date of the earliest edition of it row extant . Yet came my foote ...
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... . For a further account of Misogonus we must refer the reader to Mr. Collier's very elaborate analysis ; * only * Hist . Dram . Poet . , ii . 463-481 . remarking that the piece is written throughout in rhyming quatrains MISOGON US 27.
... . For a further account of Misogonus we must refer the reader to Mr. Collier's very elaborate analysis ; * only * Hist . Dram . Poet . , ii . 463-481 . remarking that the piece is written throughout in rhyming quatrains MISOGON US 27.
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... piece , must , as Mr. Collier remarks , " have been a very amusing character in his double capacity of rustic sim- " There are few pleton and artful mischief - maker . " pieces , " Mr. Collier adds , " in the whole range of our ancient ...
... piece , must , as Mr. Collier remarks , " have been a very amusing character in his double capacity of rustic sim- " There are few pleton and artful mischief - maker . " pieces , " Mr. Collier adds , " in the whole range of our ancient ...
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