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To Dryden's adaptation of " Troilus and Cressida , " were prefixed some fine lines to be delivered by Shakespeare's ghost ; and the Epilogue to " The Indian Emperor , " is spoken by " a Mercury . " The authors of the early age of our ...
To Dryden's adaptation of " Troilus and Cressida , " were prefixed some fine lines to be delivered by Shakespeare's ghost ; and the Epilogue to " The Indian Emperor , " is spoken by " a Mercury . " The authors of the early age of our ...
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Let him retire , " he pleads for himself to the audience , in lines which show that here , at all events , he appreciated his real position , " let him retire , betwixt two ages cast , The first of this and hindmost of the last .
Let him retire , " he pleads for himself to the audience , in lines which show that here , at all events , he appreciated his real position , " let him retire , betwixt two ages cast , The first of this and hindmost of the last .
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Thus in the little three - line prologue in the play - scene in Hamlet we get perhaps a parody of the very curt style of address which was usual when a " dumb - show " was to follow , short both in the number and the length of the lines ...
Thus in the little three - line prologue in the play - scene in Hamlet we get perhaps a parody of the very curt style of address which was usual when a " dumb - show " was to follow , short both in the number and the length of the lines ...
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CALLANDER CRAGS By Rosa Mackenzie Kettle | 53 |
GREAT COMPANIES AND TRADING | 71 |
FARMER AND PARSON | 128 |
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