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Page vi
... Lady Wrothe . XII . To the Countess of Bedford XIII . To the Earl of Southampton XIV . To the Earl of Sussex XV . To the Lord of Walden XVI . To Sir Thomas Howard XVII . To Lady Arabella Stuart XVIII . To Lord Wotton XIX . To the Earl ...
... Lady Wrothe . XII . To the Countess of Bedford XIII . To the Earl of Southampton XIV . To the Earl of Sussex XV . To the Lord of Walden XVI . To Sir Thomas Howard XVII . To Lady Arabella Stuart XVIII . To Lord Wotton XIX . To the Earl ...
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... lady less amenable to the proffer of future fame than the ' belle marquise ' who has the credit for all time to come of having lent a humble ear to the haughty suit and looked with a gracious eye on the grey hairs of the great Corneille ...
... lady less amenable to the proffer of future fame than the ' belle marquise ' who has the credit for all time to come of having lent a humble ear to the haughty suit and looked with a gracious eye on the grey hairs of the great Corneille ...
Page xxxii
... Lady of Pleasure ( where an allusion to this earlier play is brought into the dialogue ) , which but for a single ugly incongruity would be one of the few finest examples of pure high comedy in verse that our stage could show against ...
... Lady of Pleasure ( where an allusion to this earlier play is brought into the dialogue ) , which but for a single ugly incongruity would be one of the few finest examples of pure high comedy in verse that our stage could show against ...
Page liv
... Lady Essex nor Perseus Earl of Somerset had reason to thank or to reward the solitary singer whose voice was raised to call down blessings on the bridal bed which gave such a Julia to the arms of such a Manlius . The enormous absurdity ...
... Lady Essex nor Perseus Earl of Somerset had reason to thank or to reward the solitary singer whose voice was raised to call down blessings on the bridal bed which gave such a Julia to the arms of such a Manlius . The enormous absurdity ...
Page lx
... Lady of Beauty , ' as Heine said when lying at her feet stricken to death , who has no hands , and cannot help us . ' For of narrative poets there were none in that generation of any note but Drayton and Daniel ; and though these might ...
... Lady of Beauty , ' as Heine said when lying at her feet stricken to death , who has no hands , and cannot help us . ' For of narrative poets there were none in that generation of any note but Drayton and Daniel ; and though these might ...
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Page 57 - It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by Fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows; let it suffice. What we behold is censured by our eyes.