| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical... | |
| 1838 - 542 pages
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous dunng the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1056 pages
...been the theatre of great events. Such historical^ travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...once been the theatre of great events. Such historical travellers were very numerous during the second half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century ; and though at first they confined their researches chiefly to such places as had obtained some historical... | |
| August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1840 - 424 pages
...In short the views and demands with which poets are often oppressed by a prosaical 314 LECTURES ON public are personified in the most ingenious and amusing...the first period of the English theatre is the only cue of importance. The plays of the least known writers of that time, (I venture to affirm this, though... | |
| August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1846 - 554 pages
...perceive between them something about the same relation as between the paintings of the school of Michel Angelo and those of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth THE PURITANS TOE STAGE CLOSED. 4?S century. Both are tainted with manner; but the manner of the former... | |
| Electronic journals - 1877 - 564 pages
...asks, 1 Whether Roaer may come and milk my cows. Mum ! ' " There are several other fashionable words of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth century to be found in these glossaries, and some expletives which are happily modified now, in sound as well... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1868 - 104 pages
...conception, and he had been forced to wear the garb and mien of a low jester and buffoon. The perverted taste of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries seemed to be unequal to the true appreciation of this grand and gloomy creation of the poet.... | |
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