 a comedy which wanteth, I must confess, much of that ornament which the stage and action lent it, for, it comprehending also another play or interlude, personated by ladies, I must refer to your imagination, the music, the songs, the dancing, and other...  The grateful servant. The traitor. Love's cruelty. Love in a maze. The bird ... - Page 368by James Shirley - 1833 - 1 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1833 - 590 pages
...apposite names for your own compositions, as Health's Sickness, The Unlaveliness of Lovelocks, 8fc.") how aptly I may present you, at this time, with the...comprehending also another play or interlude, personated by ladifs, I must refer to your imagination the music, the songs, the the players were apt ' to speak... | |
 | English periodicals - 1880 - 790 pages
...apposite names for your own compositions, as ' Health's Sickness,' ' The Unloveliness of Lovelocks,' &c.) how aptly I may present you, at this time, with 'The...dancing, and other varieties, which I know would have pleased you infinitely in the presentment." This is the only undignified and ungenerous incident recorded... | |
 | Arthur Huntington Nason - 1915 - 550 pages
...apposite names for your own compositions as Health's Sickness, The Unloveliness of Love-locks, &c.) how aptly I may present you at this time, with the...interlude, personated by ladies, I must refer to your J imagination, the music, the songs, the dancing, and other varieties, which I know would have pleas'd... | |
 | Sophie Tomlinson - Drama - 2005 - 324 pages
...showcased women actors. In the dedication Shirley confesses with heavy irony that the comedy lacks much of that ornament which the stage and action lent...dancing, and other varieties, which I know would have pleased you infinitely in the presentment. 5 ' By so dedicating The Bird in a Cage, Shirley manifested... | |
 | Hero Chalmers, Julie Sanders, Sophie Tomlinson - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 354 pages
...apposite names for your own compositions, as Health's Sickness, The Unloveliness of Love locks, etc. 10 - how aptly I may present you, at this time, with The...the dancing, and other varieties, which I know would 1 5 have pleased you infinitely in the presentment. I was the rather inclined to make this oblation... | |
 | Janette Dillon - Drama - 2006 - 39 pages
...Shirley delights in warning him how far the printed text must fall short of the pleasures of performance: 'for it comprehending also another play or interlude,...dancing, and other varieties, which I know would have pleased you infinitely in the presentment' (lines 9, 18-22). Prynne was sentenced in February 1634,... | |
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