The Alchemist
Fortune, that favours fools, these two short hours,We wish away, both for your sakes and ours,Judging spectators; and desire, in place,To the author justice, to ourselves but grace.Our scene is London, 'cause we would make known,No country's mirth is better than our own:No clime breeds better matter for your whore,Bawd, squire, impostor, many persons more,Whose manners, now call'd humours, feed the stage;And which have still been subject for the rageOr spleen of comic writers. Though this penDid never aim to grieve, but better men;Howe'er the age he lives in doth endureThe vices that she breeds, above their cure.But when the wholesome remedie…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-7357-6039-5
- EAN: 9783735760395
- Produktnummer: 31492020
- Verlag: Books on Demand
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 198 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 391 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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