The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 3Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1799 |
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... ANCIENT THEATRES . THE drama before the time of Shakspeare was fo little cultivated , or fo ill understood , that to many it may appear unneceffary to carry our theatrical researches higher than that period . Dry- den has truly observed ...
... ANCIENT THEATRES . THE drama before the time of Shakspeare was fo little cultivated , or fo ill understood , that to many it may appear unneceffary to carry our theatrical researches higher than that period . Dry- den has truly observed ...
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... ancient dramatick exhibitions , though I fear I can add but little to the researches which have already been made on that fubject . Mr. Warton in his elegant and ingenious Hiftory of English Poetry has given so accurate an account of ...
... ancient dramatick exhibitions , though I fear I can add but little to the researches which have already been made on that fubject . Mr. Warton in his elegant and ingenious Hiftory of English Poetry has given so accurate an account of ...
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... ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not entitled . The era of the earliest representation in Italy , founded on holy writ , he has placed in the year 1264. when the fraternity del Gonfalone was ...
... ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not entitled . The era of the earliest representation in Italy , founded on holy writ , he has placed in the year 1264. when the fraternity del Gonfalone was ...
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... ancient Greek tragedy was a religious fpectacle , a tranfition was made on the fame plan ; and the choruffes were turned into Christian hymns . Gregory wrote many facred dramas for this purpose , which have not survived those inimitable ...
... ancient Greek tragedy was a religious fpectacle , a tranfition was made on the fame plan ; and the choruffes were turned into Christian hymns . Gregory wrote many facred dramas for this purpose , which have not survived those inimitable ...
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... ancient as well as moft com- plète collection of this kind is , The Chefter Myf- teries , which were written by Ralph Higden , a monk of the Abbey of Chefter , about the year 1328,1 9 MSS . Digby , 133. Bibl . Bodl . MSS . Harl . 2013 ...
... ancient as well as moft com- plète collection of this kind is , The Chefter Myf- teries , which were written by Ralph Higden , a monk of the Abbey of Chefter , about the year 1328,1 9 MSS . Digby , 133. Bibl . Bodl . MSS . Harl . 2013 ...
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