 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1808 - 512 pages
...apology to be used by intreating thy patience. This Tragi-comedy (being 1 reserved amongst 2?0 in which I had either an entire hand or at the least a main finger) coming accidentally to the press, and I having intelligence thereof, thought it not fit that it should... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1813 - 502 pages
...to be used by iutreating thy patience. This Tragi-coinedy (being t reserved amongst 2?0 in which I had either an entire hand or at the least a main finger) coming accidentally to the press, and I having intelligence thereof, thought • it not fit that it... | |
 | English plays - 1815 - 450 pages
...thy patience. This Tragi-Comedy (being one reserved ' amongst two hundred and twenty, in which 1 have had either an entire hand, or at the least a main finger) coming accidently to the press, and I having intelligence thereof, thought it not fit that it should... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - English drama - 1816 - 456 pages
...patience. This Tragi-Comedy (being one reserved amongst two hundred and twenty, in •which 1 have had either an entire hand, or at the least a main finger) coming accidently to the press, and I having intelligence thereof, thought it not fit that it should... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...his English Traveller, he asserts the almost inctedible fact, that in no less than 220 plays, he " had either an entire hand, or, at the least, a main finger," besides numerous other works ; so that some persons have calculated that, comparing the length of his... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...the Preface to his English TraVcr, a tragi-comedy, that it was " one reserved amongst 220 in '" he had either an entire hand or at the least a main finger ;" a of industry and fertility which may justly excite our astonishIt is perhaps equally extraordinary,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 522 pages
...entreating thy'patience. This tragicomedy (being one reserved amongst two hundred and twenty in which I had either an entire hand, or at the least a main finger) coming accidentally to the press, and I having intelligence thereof, thought it not fit that it should... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1844 - 330 pages
...to be used by entreating thy patience. This Tragi-comedy l being one reserved amongst 220 in which I had either an entire hand, or at the least a main finger) coming accidentally to the press, and I having intelligence thereof, thought it not fit that it should... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...prefixed to his tragi-comedy of The English Traveller, published in 1633, had then, as he phrases it, " had either an entire hand, or, at the least, a main finger," in the incredible number of two hundred and twenty dramatic productions! "True it is," he adds, " that my... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1845 - 466 pages
...Sliakspere's contemporaries, given by Charles Lamb, (in his 'Specimens,'') it appears that Heywood had ' either an entire hand, or at the least a main finger' in 220 plays, much the greater number of which has perished. Such was one of the ways in which, as in... | |
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