Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty: A TragedyW. Reeve, 1747 - 320 páginas |
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... , where he met with little Oppofition , and made the Sultan's Sub- jects pay for the Depredations his own had fuffered during their Master's Ufurpation . Amurath , A 4 . Amurath , altho ' the Hungarian War was not SCANDERBEG . vii.
... , where he met with little Oppofition , and made the Sultan's Sub- jects pay for the Depredations his own had fuffered during their Master's Ufurpation . Amurath , A 4 . Amurath , altho ' the Hungarian War was not SCANDERBEG . vii.
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... Master than the Success of the War : His Son , indeed , of fa- vage Disposition , drove the unwilling Soldiers to the Breach , where they were flaughtered on Heaps . Scanderbeg gave the Turks no Reft Night or Day , but by affaulting ...
... Master than the Success of the War : His Son , indeed , of fa- vage Disposition , drove the unwilling Soldiers to the Breach , where they were flaughtered on Heaps . Scanderbeg gave the Turks no Reft Night or Day , but by affaulting ...
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... Master of Croya , ordered it to be undermined ; but the Rock on which the City was founded , could not be fufficiently pene- trated . He next tried to corrupt the Governor , or raise a Mutiny in the City by the Force of his Bribes ; but ...
... Master of Croya , ordered it to be undermined ; but the Rock on which the City was founded , could not be fufficiently pene- trated . He next tried to corrupt the Governor , or raise a Mutiny in the City by the Force of his Bribes ; but ...
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... Master Ben . His Plots are his own ; for , ftudying Men more than Books , he has fallen into no Plagia- rifms . He wrote the fifteen following Plays : I. Novella , a Comedy , acted by his Majelly's Servants in the Year 1632 . II . The ...
... Master Ben . His Plots are his own ; for , ftudying Men more than Books , he has fallen into no Plagia- rifms . He wrote the fifteen following Plays : I. Novella , a Comedy , acted by his Majelly's Servants in the Year 1632 . II . The ...
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... Master of Westminster- School , then a Student , acted a principal Part in it ; and he and his Fellow - Students per- formed their Parts fo well , that they were thought to exceed the Actors by Profeffion , who afterwards play'd it at ...
... Master of Westminster- School , then a Student , acted a principal Part in it ; and he and his Fellow - Students per- formed their Parts fo well , that they were thought to exceed the Actors by Profeffion , who afterwards play'd it at ...
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Página 140 - He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Página 142 - Mr. Jonson, who was at that time altogether unknown to the world, had offered one of his plays to the players, in order to have it acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put, after having turned it carelessly and superciliously over, were just upon returning it to him with an ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company ; when...
Página 147 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 142 - His Acquaintance with Ben Johnson began with a remarkable piece of Humanity and good Nature; Mr Johnson, who was at that Time altogether unknown to the World, had offer'd one of his Plays to the Players, in order to have it...
Página 140 - He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Página 140 - Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings, like those of other authors, among their least perfect writings ; art had so little, and nature so large a share in what he did, that, for aught I know...
Página 222 - I will say but one word more in general of his writings, which is, that what he has done in any one species, or distinct kind, would have been sufficient to have acquired him a great name. If he had written nothing but his prefaces, or nothing but his songs or his prologues, each of them would have entitled him to the preference and distinction of excelling in his kind.
Página 139 - ... he was his eldest son, he could give him no better education than his own employment.
Página 221 - Indeed, it is to be regretted, that he was rather blameable in the other extreme; for, by that means, he was personally less known, and, consequently, his character might become liable both to misapprehensions and misrepresentations.
Página 221 - ... last, even to near seventy years of age, improving even in fire and imagination, as well as in judgment; witness his Ode on St Cecilia's Day, and his Fables, his latest performances.