pt. 2. Historical account of the English stage. Emendations and additions. Tempest. Two gentlemen of VeronaH. Baldwin, 1790 |
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... editions , with various al- terations and improvements , were printed between 1563 and 1587 . At length ( about the year 1591 ) the great lumi- nary of the dramatick world blazed out , and our poet produced thofe plays which have now ...
... editions , with various al- terations and improvements , were printed between 1563 and 1587 . At length ( about the year 1591 ) the great lumi- nary of the dramatick world blazed out , and our poet produced thofe plays which have now ...
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... edition of his Chronicle published in his life - time , 4to . 1605 : and is an interpolation by his Continuator , Edmund Howes . Richard Tarleton , as appears by the register of St. Leonard's , Shore- ditch , was buried there ...
... edition of his Chronicle published in his life - time , 4to . 1605 : and is an interpolation by his Continuator , Edmund Howes . Richard Tarleton , as appears by the register of St. Leonard's , Shore- ditch , was buried there ...
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... edition of Camden's Britannia , printed in folio in 1607 , Sir George Buc is called Mafter of the Revels , I fuppofe from his having obtained the reverfion of that place : for from what I have already stated he could not have been then ...
... edition of Camden's Britannia , printed in folio in 1607 , Sir George Buc is called Mafter of the Revels , I fuppofe from his having obtained the reverfion of that place : for from what I have already stated he could not have been then ...
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... edition of Biographia Britannica , and many other books . The error I allude to , is , that this Sir George Buc , who was knighted at White - hall by king James the day before his coronation , July 23 , 1603 , was the author of the ...
... edition of Biographia Britannica , and many other books . The error I allude to , is , that this Sir George Buc , who was knighted at White - hall by king James the day before his coronation , July 23 , 1603 , was the author of the ...
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... edition , printed in 1608 , is faid to have been performed by his majesty's fervants , playing usually at the Globe on the Bankfide . — See alto the licence granted by king James in 1603 " —and the faid comedies , tragedies , & c . - to ...
... edition , printed in 1608 , is faid to have been performed by his majesty's fervants , playing usually at the Globe on the Bankfide . — See alto the licence granted by king James in 1603 " —and the faid comedies , tragedies , & c . - to ...
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Página 57 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Página 56 - To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noontide sun , call'd forth the mutinous winds , And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire , and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Página 19 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Página 63 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro. Tis new to thee.
Página 9 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty; — Seb.
Página 56 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the order, with their Georges and Garter, the guards with their embroidered coats and the like; sufficient, in truth, within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Página 71 - There was a great engine at the lower end of the room, which had motion, and in it were the images of seahorses, with other terrible fishes, which were ridden by Moors. The indecorum was, that there was all fish and no water.
Página 68 - ... the player when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived. Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.