 Actors," with some variations and additions. of that accurateness both in plot and style, that these more censorious days with greater curiosity acquire, I must thus excuse. That as plays were then, some fifteen or sixteen years ago, it was in the fashion.  The Thracian wonder - Strana 98podľa Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1816Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - Počet stránok 610
...prevention, and then knowing withal, that it comes short of that accurateness both in plot and stile, that these more censorious days with greater curiosity...fifteen or sixteen years ago it was in the fashion. Nor could it have found a more seasonable and fit publication than at this time, when to the glory... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - Počet stránok 562
...prevention ; and then knowing withal that it comes short of that accurateness both in plot and stile, that these more censorious days •with greater curiosity...fifteen or sixteen years ago, it was in the fashion." This throws back the date of the production of Hey wood's play to the year 1596 or 1 5<W, and indeed... | |
 | English plays - 1815 - Počet stránok 450
...was a Fellow of Peter House, Cambridge : and it appears from a Copy of Verses addressed by Heywood to James Yorke, and prefixed to that author's Book...country, perhaps of any other' excepting the celebrated Lopez de Vega, having, as the reader will notice in the Address to the Reader prefixed to the " English... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1815 - Počet stránok 470
...was a Fellow of Peter House, Cambridge : and it appears from a Copy of Verses addressed by Heywood to James Yorke, and prefixed to that author's Book...acquire, I must thus excuse. That as plays were then, somejifleen or sixteen years ago, it was in the fashion." Heywood is beyond question the most voluminous... | |
 | Henry Glapthorne - 1824 - Počet stránok 520
...ere it came to my knowledge, that it was past prevention, and then knowing withal that it came short of that accurateness both in plot and style, that...fifteen or sixteen years ago, it was in the fashion." In the Apology for Actors, which was published in l6l2, he describes himself, even then, as " being... | |
 | 1825 - Počet stránok 378
...and then knowing withal that it came short of that accurateness both in plot and style, that theses more censorious days, with greater curiosity acquire,...fifteen or sixteen years ago, it was in the fashion." In the Apology for Actors, which was published in 1612, he describes himself, even then, as " being... | |
 | George Campbell Macaulay - 1883 - Počet stránok 256
...shortcomings of his play, on the ground that it was written many years since in his infancy of judgment, and that " as plays were then, some fifteen or sixteen years ago, it was in the fashion," yet these excuses seem to refer only to the want of " that accurateness, both of plot and style, that... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - Počet stránok 642
...ere it came to my knowledge that it was past precaution, and then knowing withal that it comes short of that accurateness both in plot and style that these...were then some fifteen or sixteen years ago it was then the Fashion.2 1 It was probably almost entirely the composition of Hcaumont. 2 Heywood's Works,... | |
 | David Klein - 1910 - Počet stránok 284
...Heywood. Four Prentices of London (printed 1610). Dedication: — . . . knowing withal that it comes short of that accurateness both in plot and style, that...fifteen or sixteen years ago — it was in the fashion. Henry Shirley. Martyred Soldier (printed 1638). To the Reader:— That this play's old, 'tis true;... | |
 | David Klein - 1910 - Počet stránok 288
...that it comes short of that accurateness both in plot and style, that these more censorious days w1th greater curiosity acquire, I must thus excuse: that...fifteen or sixteen years ago — it was in the fashion. Henry Shirley. Martyred Soldier (printed 1638). To the Reader:— That this play's old, 'tis true ;... | |
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