The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 3Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1799 |
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... fuch particulars as fuit my prefent purpose . The earliest dramatick entertainments exhibited in England , as well as every other part of Europe , were of a religious kind . So early as in the beginning of the twelfth century , it was ...
... fuch particulars as fuit my prefent purpose . The earliest dramatick entertainments exhibited in England , as well as every other part of Europe , were of a religious kind . So early as in the beginning of the twelfth century , it was ...
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... fuch fwete thinges as burned therein . With the like doome - fhews they used everie where to furnish fondrye parts of theire church fervice , as by their fpectacles of the nativitie , paffion , and afcenfion , " & c . 3 In a preceeding ...
... fuch fwete thinges as burned therein . With the like doome - fhews they used everie where to furnish fondrye parts of theire church fervice , as by their fpectacles of the nativitie , paffion , and afcenfion , " & c . 3 In a preceeding ...
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... fuch as Charity , Sin , Death , Hope , Faith , or the like , and as the common poetry of the times , especially among the French , began to deal much in allegory , at length plays were formed entirely confifting of fuch perfonifications ...
... fuch as Charity , Sin , Death , Hope , Faith , or the like , and as the common poetry of the times , especially among the French , began to deal much in allegory , at length plays were formed entirely confifting of fuch perfonifications ...
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... fuch a play , my father tooke me with him , and made me ftand between his leggs , as he fate upon one of the benches , where we faw and heard very well . The play was called The Cradle of Security , wherein was perfonated a king or fome ...
... fuch a play , my father tooke me with him , and made me ftand between his leggs , as he fate upon one of the benches , where we faw and heard very well . The play was called The Cradle of Security , wherein was perfonated a king or fome ...
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... fuch impreffion in me , that when I came towards manş eftate , it was as fresh in my memory , as if I had feen it newly acted . " The writer of this book appears to have been born in the fame year ' with our great poet ( 1564 ) ...
... fuch impreffion in me , that when I came towards manş eftate , it was as fresh in my memory , as if I had feen it newly acted . " The writer of this book appears to have been born in the fame year ' with our great poet ( 1564 ) ...
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