... 28gn The Late Lancashire Witches ( with Flecknoe , Richard , 308–314 passim Richard Brome ) , 321 Damoiselles à la ... 302 , 326 Goodman , Cardell , 394 , 402 Bartholomew Fair , 394 Government : theories of , in D , 271-274 Epicoene ...
In re tam antiqua, & fabulosa, quid certi dicerem [what I might say with assurance of things so ancient and fabulous]. I thought it as good therefore to follow my owne fancy, as the uncertainty of others.” Evans' fancy was principally ...
In the last decade of Dryden's life, he brought four new works before the theatre-going public: a dramatic opera, a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and a number of appendages to an old comedy by John Fletcher, which was revived partly so that ...
To shun this Ill, the cunning Leach ordains In Summer's Sultry Heats (for then it reigns) To feed the Females, e're the Sun arise, Or late at Night, when Stars adorn the Skies. When she has calv'd, then set the Dam aside; ...
Unused to crowds, the parson quakes for fear, And wonders how the devil he durst come there; Wanting three talents needful for the place— Some beard, some learning, and some little grace. Nor is thepunyPoet void ofcare; For authors, ...
Caroline Robbins (ed., Two English Republican Tracts [1969], pp. 42, 52) notes that anyone opposed to monarchy might be labeled a "republican," and Dryden speaks of it as a form of government based on the rule by a body of men chosen in ...
The notice there says: “Perform'd at Stationers-Hall, on MONDAY, November 22. 1697.” Alexander's Feast was subsequently performed on 9 December at Thomas Hickford's dancing school in Panton Street, and on 16 December in York Buildings ...
The time signatures , however , are variously interpreted today , as they were in Purcell's time , even , it would seem , by Purcell himself . It seems to have been the general rule that was faster than C and that 3/2 was faster than ...
manuscript so that the dedication would conform to ideas that might reasonably be held or expressed by Henry Purcell. Reflections on painting would hardly be expected of Purcell, and perhaps it would have been indecorous for him to ...
with a similar prophetic scene by Purcell in The Indian Queen.” The symphony continues in g-minor as Proteus descends. Next, as if in immediate answer to the prophecy, come the villains Democracy and Zelota again, with a one-eyed archer ...
1706 s April: "With all the original Musick compos'd by the Late Mr. Henry Purcell, and perforra'd by Mr. Leveridge, Mr. Hughs, and Mr. Ramondon, Mrs. Lindsey, Mrs. Cross, and the Boy. And all the Dances perform'd by Monsieur Cherrier, ...
See W. J. Lawrence, "Did Thomas Shadwell Write an Opera on 'The Tempest'?" Anglia, XXVII (19o4), 2o5-217; Lawrence, "Purcell's Music for The Tempest," pp. 164-165; William Cummings, "Purcell's ...
PURCELL . ( SET TO MUSIC BY DR . BLOW . ) MARK how the lark and linnet sing ; With rival notes They strain their warbling throats , To welcome in the spring . But in the close of night , When Philomel begins her heavenly lay ...
Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell, Late Servant to His Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St Peter's, Westminster 1 Mark how the lark and linnet sing; With rival notes They strain their warbling throats To welcome in ...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1702 edition. Excerpt: .
The Works Of John Dryden; Vol XII. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
The Works of John Dryden: Plays
Ours and the French can at best but fall into Blank Verse , which is a fault in Prose . ... or even in the Catalogue of 30 Homer's Ships , which is not more harmonious , more truly Rythmical , than most of the French , or English ...
The notice of her in Highfill concludes: “Everything points to her having been a handsome woman (perhaps with the long black hair and dark eyes that Lee describes for her role in Nero) and a woman of spirit.
As Summers notes (V, 436), the original reads "mocked many a man" 9l Highfill, II, 93; I, 324. See also the headnote to Cleomenes (Works, XIV). S>2 Highfill, XI, 40-43. 93 I, i, 413-416, p. 122 above. and by his omission Dryden makes ...