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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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“The lead actor delivered a powerful performance that moved the entire audience to tears.”

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O LIFE OF JOHN FLETCHER.

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Ben Jonson·1572–1637
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eart they fall many degrees short of Shakespeare. Tlie playsof Beaumont and Fletcher, though once so popular, are nowrarely acted. Mosjt of them run into luxuriance, and abound ingrossness of language, which would not now be tolerated by anydecent audience. The poetical powers of Fletcher are very ad-vantageously displayed in a piece of his sole composition, ^' TheFaithful Shepherd," a dramatic pastoral on the model of the Ita-lian. It possesses many fine beauties, and has been imitated byMilton in his Comus, but its plot is defective and unpleasantThe reader will find much excellent criticism, and abundance ofjudicious remarks on the labours of this pair of poets, in the fol-lowing prefaces. The present edition is taken from Mr. Colman\published in ten volumes, 1778, which is by far the most correctof any that has hitherto appeared before the public.
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