The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 |
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... Ancient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor . By Samuel Rowe , M.A. , late Vicar of Crediton , Devon . 2nd edition . London and Ply- mouth . 1856 . 5. The Anglo - Saxon Episcopate of Cornwall , with some Account of the Bishops of Crediton . By ...
... Ancient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor . By Samuel Rowe , M.A. , late Vicar of Crediton , Devon . 2nd edition . London and Ply- mouth . 1856 . 5. The Anglo - Saxon Episcopate of Cornwall , with some Account of the Bishops of Crediton . By ...
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... ancient Mysteries , but the national character favoured a form of drama that was in its prime little more than a simple drama of intrigue . Lope paid no more heed than Shakespeare to the unities of Aristotle ; but neither did he regard ...
... ancient Mysteries , but the national character favoured a form of drama that was in its prime little more than a simple drama of intrigue . Lope paid no more heed than Shakespeare to the unities of Aristotle ; but neither did he regard ...
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... ancient stage direction used to be , Introduce here as many and as strange animals as you can . ' Even at this day , we believe , Miracle plays are represented by puppets in the cellars of Berlin , as they were represented in Steele's ...
... ancient stage direction used to be , Introduce here as many and as strange animals as you can . ' Even at this day , we believe , Miracle plays are represented by puppets in the cellars of Berlin , as they were represented in Steele's ...
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... ancient text . The great dramatist , ' he said , ' had struggled into light so disguised and travestied , that no classic author , after having run ten secular stages through the blind cloisters of monks and canons , ever came out blind ...
... ancient text . The great dramatist , ' he said , ' had struggled into light so disguised and travestied , that no classic author , after having run ten secular stages through the blind cloisters of monks and canons , ever came out blind ...
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... ancient readings were more thoroughly ascertained and the Elizabethan literature ran- sacked to clear up the allusions and language of the glory of that age . The materials which the latest , knot of commentators had accumulated still ...
... ancient readings were more thoroughly ascertained and the Elizabethan literature ran- sacked to clear up the allusions and language of the glory of that age . The materials which the latest , knot of commentators had accumulated still ...
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