The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 4Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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... play of the Squire of Alsatia , which turns upon the plot of the Adel . phi of Terence . In this old play , two men of fortune , brothers , educate two young men , ( sons to the one and nephews to the other , ) each under his own ...
... play of the Squire of Alsatia , which turns upon the plot of the Adel . phi of Terence . In this old play , two men of fortune , brothers , educate two young men , ( sons to the one and nephews to the other , ) each under his own ...
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... play , that I cannot form a plot . But the truth is , that the idea adopted by too favourable judges , of my having some aptitude for that department of poetry , has been much founded on those scraps of old plays , which , being taken ...
... play , that I cannot form a plot . But the truth is , that the idea adopted by too favourable judges , of my having some aptitude for that department of poetry , has been much founded on those scraps of old plays , which , being taken ...
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... play of yours I will bring down a set of roaring boys , that shall make all the critics in the pit , and the ... player , for that is his fate five days out of the d'ye lack ? -Watches - clocks - barnacles ? -What seven . It is unnatural ...
... play of yours I will bring down a set of roaring boys , that shall make all the critics in the pit , and the ... player , for that is his fate five days out of the d'ye lack ? -Watches - clocks - barnacles ? -What seven . It is unnatural ...
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... play of this small artillery of city wit , by halting his stately pace , and viewing grimly , first the one ... played the hazel rods round about the cloisters . Upon the west end of the cloisters the rods turned one over an- other , an ...
... play of this small artillery of city wit , by halting his stately pace , and viewing grimly , first the one ... played the hazel rods round about the cloisters . Upon the west end of the cloisters the rods turned one over an- other , an ...
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... play - houses , and other places to which youth resort . But I see in your lordship's hand one of the new - invented plots of the piece , † which they hand about of late - May I ask what play ? " " Oh ! a well - known piece , " said ...
... play - houses , and other places to which youth resort . But I see in your lordship's hand one of the new - invented plots of the piece , † which they hand about of late - May I ask what play ? " " Oh ! a well - known piece , " said ...
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