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At the end of his satire ( 'Pigmalion's Image'), Marston self-complacently tacks on a concluding piece: 'The Author in Praise of his Precedent Poem.'
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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[27] In his sixth satire of 'The Scourge of Villanie,' Marston explains why he had composed his 'Pigmalion's Image:' --
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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Before I could enlighten her as to the signification of our costumes, Crockett exclaimed: “Why, they are rigged out as Mr. Pigmalion and his gal.”
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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Yet deem'st that in sad seriousnesse I write such nasty stuff as in Pigmalion?
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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The latter even once says (_Scourge of Villanie_, sat. vi.) that many a one, in reading his _Pigmalion_, has compared him to Ovid.
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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Egle, Pigmalion and le Sylphe were successively given: nothing could bear the comparison.
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Juno on the coast of Affrica, where he is received by Dido, in the new town of Carthage, which she was building, after her flight from the cruelty of her brother in law Pigmalion, who had murdered her husband
The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1736
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The tale of Pigmalion with conclusion vpon the beautye of his loue.
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I think that Bernard Shaw's Pigmalion (no singing!) will do even better. rosie Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 02: 01 PM EST bwlass Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10: 52 AM EST
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I think that Bernard Shaw's Pigmalion (no singing!) will do even better. rosie Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 02: 01 PM EST bwlass Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10: 52 AM EST
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