The Quarterly Review, Volume 220William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1914 |
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... given the power , which he lacks at present , of subsequently revoking a certi- ficate when found to have been obtained by fraudulent representations . A further point in which the Committee found that the existing law needed ...
... given the power , which he lacks at present , of subsequently revoking a certi- ficate when found to have been obtained by fraudulent representations . A further point in which the Committee found that the existing law needed ...
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... given them any advantage over earlier playwrights in this respect ; nor did they show more concern than their predecessors for the survival of their works . With the exception of Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess , ' it is not known that ...
... given them any advantage over earlier playwrights in this respect ; nor did they show more concern than their predecessors for the survival of their works . With the exception of Fletcher's Faithful Shepherdess , ' it is not known that ...
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... given to the further tradition that Beaumont's rôle was merely the judicious restraint of Fletcher's overflowing wit and invention . Cartwright gives expression to this tradition in his verses among the tributes prefixed to the first ...
... given to the further tradition that Beaumont's rôle was merely the judicious restraint of Fletcher's overflowing wit and invention . Cartwright gives expression to this tradition in his verses among the tributes prefixed to the first ...
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... article ; and in a number of plays the presence of Massinger's style confirms it in a manner that enhances the repute which his own unassisted plays have · given him . But it is in the latter BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 43.
... article ; and in a number of plays the presence of Massinger's style confirms it in a manner that enhances the repute which his own unassisted plays have · given him . But it is in the latter BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER 43.
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... given him . But it is in the latter that he must be read to be seen at his best , especially in characterisation . There is a peculiar fascination about some of his less normal types , such as Domitian in The Roman Actor . ' Prof ...
... given him . But it is in the latter that he must be read to be seen at his best , especially in characterisation . There is a peculiar fascination about some of his less normal types , such as Domitian in The Roman Actor . ' Prof ...
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