The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets: Also an Exact Account of All the Plays that Were Ever Yet Printed in the English Tongue; Their Double Titles, the Places where Acted, the Dates when Printed, and the Persons to Whom Dedicated; with Remarks and Observations on Most of the Said PlaysT. Leigh, 1698 - 182 pages |
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... Prince as any Man whatever ; and and who indeed establish'd the greatest Emperor over the moft Free and Polite People in the Uni- verle ; Mecenas I fay , thought Poetry fo worthy his peculiar Care , that we owe the beft of the Roman ...
... Prince as any Man whatever ; and and who indeed establish'd the greatest Emperor over the moft Free and Polite People in the Uni- verle ; Mecenas I fay , thought Poetry fo worthy his peculiar Care , that we owe the beft of the Roman ...
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... Prince Henry , on whofe Death he dedicated it to Prince Charles , afterwards King Charles I. A Fragment of an intended Heroick Poem of Jonathan , of which he has left but one Book . THE Robert Armin . HE Author of a Play which Mr ...
... Prince Henry , on whofe Death he dedicated it to Prince Charles , afterwards King Charles I. A Fragment of an intended Heroick Poem of Jonathan , of which he has left but one Book . THE Robert Armin . HE Author of a Play which Mr ...
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... Prince of Tyre ; an antient Play , and is an Account of the Life and Death of Pope Alex- ander VI . See Guiccardin's Hist . Italy ; and Maffonius de Geftis Pon- tificum Romanum . There is alfo Published under this Author's Name , a Book ...
... Prince of Tyre ; an antient Play , and is an Account of the Life and Death of Pope Alex- ander VI . See Guiccardin's Hist . Italy ; and Maffonius de Geftis Pon- tificum Romanum . There is alfo Published under this Author's Name , a Book ...
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... Prince : or , The Falfe Relick , T.C.Fol . 1679 . The Plot taken out of Heylin's Geography , in his Account of Georgia . His Life is Printed in 8vo . 1681 . Aphara Behn . T HIS Authorefs , whofe Name was Aphara , not Aftred , as ma- ny ...
... Prince : or , The Falfe Relick , T.C.Fol . 1679 . The Plot taken out of Heylin's Geography , in his Account of Georgia . His Life is Printed in 8vo . 1681 . Aphara Behn . T HIS Authorefs , whofe Name was Aphara , not Aftred , as ma- ny ...
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... Prince , or Curious Husband , T. C. 4to . Part of it ta- ken from the Story of the Curious Impertinent in Don Quixot , Part 4- Ch . 6,7,8 . City Heiress , or Sir Timothy Treat - All , C. 4to . Part of it from a Play of Middleton's ...
... Prince , or Curious Husband , T. C. 4to . Part of it ta- ken from the Story of the Curious Impertinent in Don Quixot , Part 4- Ch . 6,7,8 . City Heiress , or Sir Timothy Treat - All , C. 4to . Part of it from a Play of Middleton's ...
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Page 27 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Page 43 - I see thou art implacable, more deaf To prayers than winds and seas ; yet winds to seas Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger unappeasable, still rages, Eternal tempest, never to be calm'd.
Page 79 - THE MASQUE OF QUEENS; CELEBRATED FROM THE HOUSE OF FAME BY THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH HER LADIES At Whitehall, Feb. 2, 1609. [Dedication.] TO THE GLORY OF OUR OWN, AND GRIEF OF OTHER NATIONS, MY LORD HENRY PRINCE OF GREAT BRITAIN, ETC.
Page 22 - The Double Dealer: A COMEDY, Acted at the Theatre Royal by Their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. CONGREVE.
Page 26 - as no age must look to see the like," in his original character of the crafty Richard — Maister Greene, than whom " there was not an actor of his nature, in his time, of better ability in performance of what he undertook, more applaudent by the audience, of greater grace at the court, or of more general love in the Citty...
Page 107 - a Tallent, very few of our English Poets have been Master of, in moving the Passions, that are, and ought to be the Aim of all Tragick Poets, Terror and Pity
Page 158 - The First Part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of York and Lancaster; with the death of the good Duke Humphrey; and the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolk; and the tragical end of the proud Cardinal of Winchester: With the notable rebellion of Jack Cade; and the Duke of York's first claim unto the crown.
Page 167 - THE ROYAL CUCKOLD ; or, Great Bastard ; giving an Account of the Birth and Pedigree of Lewis le Grand, the first French King of that Name and Race.
Page 48 - You fee our Study is to pleafe you all:" evidently aims at Prospero's Epilogue, " my projeft . . was to pleafe." The " Perfons Represented " are] 1 " Thomas Duffel. He was, before he became a Poet, a Milliner in the New Exchange : he has writ four Plays, two of them in a Burlesque Stile.
Page 8 - QUEEN CATHARINE ; or, THE RUINES OF LOVE, a Tragedy, as it is Acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincolns Inn Fields, by His Majesty's Servants.