Love and Honour: And The Siege of Rhodes

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D. C. Heath & Company, 1909 - 362 стор.
 

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Сторінка xxxvii - The Siege of Rhodes. Made a Representation by the Art of Prospective in Scenes, and the Story sung in Recitative Mustek. At the back part of Rutland House, in the upper end of Aldersgate Street, London.
Сторінка x - Plot, namely, that of a Man who had never seen a Woman ; that by this means those two Characters of Innocence and Love might' the more illustrate and commend each other.
Сторінка xviii - I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker?
Сторінка 180 - Scenes (we having oblig'd ourselves to the variety of five changes according to the Ancient Dramatic distinctions made for time) had not been confined to eleven foot in height, and about fifteen in depth, including the places of passage reserv'd for the Musick. This is so narrow an allowance for the fleet of Solyman the Magnificent, his army, the Island of Rhodes, and the varieties attending the Siege* of the City, that I fear you will think we invite you "to such a contracted trifle as that of the...
Сторінка 316 - At first I thought her by our prophet sent As a reward for valour's toils ; More worth than all my father's spoils : And now she is become my punishment. But thou art just, O pow'r divine ! With new and painful arts Of study'd war I break the hearts Of half the world, and she breaks mine.
Сторінка ix - Entertainment** at Rutland House by declamations and music after the manner of the ancients.
Сторінка 330 - O think ! think upward on the thrones above. Disdain not mercy, since they mercy love. If mercy were not mingled with their pow'r, This wretched world could not subsist an how'r.
Сторінка 340 - ... authority royal strictly enjoine the said Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant that they doe not at any time hereafter cause to be acted or represented any play, enterlude, or opera, containing any matter of prophanation, scurrility, or obscenity...
Сторінка 168 - This Play was Richly Cloath'd;140 The King giving Mr. Betterton his Coronation Suit, in which, he Acted the Part of Prince Alvaro; The Duke of York giving Mr. Harris his, who did Prince Prospero; And my Lord of Oxford, gave Mr. Joseph Price his, who did Lionel [22] the Duke of Parma's Son; The Duke was Acted by Mr.
Сторінка 240 - That wrought the triumph of this day ; Alphonso did the sally sway; To whom our Rhodes all that she is does owe, And all that from her root of hope can grow.

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