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  Grim the Collier of Croydon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grim the Collier of Croydon is a play printed in 1662 of unknown authorship.
Under its alternative title, The Devil and his Dame, it is mentioned as a forthcoming play by Philip Henslowe in March 1600.
Its full name is Grim the Collier of Croyden; or, The Devil and his Dame: with the Devil and Saint Dunston.
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 Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society - Archives
Grim the Collier, Bull Croydon Nat Hist Sci Soc, 125: 2-3.
Grim the Collier is a well-known figure in Croydon's history.
Grim the Collier has another identity, as a common name for the plant now usually known as Fox-and-cubs, Pilosella aurantiaca (Stace, 1997).
www.greig51.freeserve.co.uk /cnhss/bull125a.htm   (525 words)

  
 William Haughton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Devil and his Dame, mentioned as a forthcoming play by Henslowe in March 1600, is identified by Mr Fleay as Grim the Collier of Croydon, which was printed in 1662.
In this play an emissary is sent from the infernal regions to report on the conditions of married life on earth.
Probably the extant anonymous play Grim the Collier of Croydon.
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 Grim the Collier of Croydon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It (under its title The Devil and his Dame) is mentioned as a forthcoming play Henslowe in March 1600.
Its full name is Grim the Collier of Croyden; or The and his Dame: with the Devil and Dunston.
Despite the game's setting in Mexico's pagan land of the dead, Grim Fandango bears little resemblance to anything remotely ideological regarding life and death.
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 [No title]
For, as both daughter and minister were brought to realize, the despot of the cottage and of the el- ders square pew had suffered more in doing what he deemed his impera- tive duty than the victims into whom he drove the sacrificial knife.
Grim Gurney3 glares; sardonic Ballantine4 Grins with a glee that is not all divine; Clarkson for thee sighs forth his mildest growl, And Willes bewails thee with an Irish howl; While in full chorus all the Sessions lead- ers Shout to a man, Down, down with special pleaders!
Of thirty-eight special jury actions at Croydon on his last cir- cuit, he was engaged in no fewer than twenty-nine.
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 AVIATION BOOKS
Shown here in vivid paintings by combat artists, some of whom were skilled aviators, these early aerial offenses were grim portents of the awesome destructive might that bombers would unleash in wars still to come.
The author has linked the story of Bawdsey with that of the nearby 'crash drome' at Sutton Heath, today known as RAF Woodbridge and a base for an American Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron as well as for the tank-busting A-10s which are NATO's answer to the Soviet armoured threat.
This is a young man's account of pre and post invasion days in France, both grim and humourous, and gives a vivid insight into life with the partisans.
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The diabolic part of the tragicomic business is distinctly inferior to the parallel or similar scenes in the much older play of Grim the Collier of Croydon, which is perhaps more likely to have been the writer's immediate model than the original story by Machiavelli.
The two remaining plays now extant which bear the single name of Dekker give no sign of his highest powers, but are tolerable examples of journeyman's work in the field of romantic or fanciful comedy.
This recriminatory dialogue between the London and the Westminster of 1608 is now and then rather flatulent in its reciprocity of rhetoric, but is enlivened by an occasional breath of genuine eloquence, and redeemed by touches of historic or social interest.
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However, master, I'm thinking, that if you like it, I'll go with you over the country a bit; and perhaps I shall be able to persuade you not to stay in this villanous place, but go back to the old country, where people farm their land like Christians.
I saw my friend Crab give a grim smile at this movement, as I was inclined to do myself, had I not been, I must confess, rather frightened; for at this moment I beheld a mad bull, as it seemed to me, making right to the spot where we stood.
The animal appeared to be in a state of the most intense excitement, with its mouth covered with foam, its nostrils dilated, eyes wild, and its tail twisted into that cork-screw figure indicative of a disposition to mischief.
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[COLLIER'S PREFACE.] [Thomas Nash, son of William Nash, minister, and Margaret his wife, was baptized at Lowestoft, in Suffolk, in November 1567.[1] He was admitted a scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, on the Lady Margaret's foundation, in 1584, and proceeded B.A. in 1585:] the following is a copy of the Register:-- "Tho.
Such particulars as have come down to us regarding Henry Chettle will be prefixed to "The Death of the Earl of Huntington," the second part of the play now reprinted.
I will away with Death, though he be grim, If they deny me to go hence with him.
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 Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society - Archives - Bulletin Index
Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society - Archives - Bulletin Index
Bulletin of the Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
A touch of class: Landed estates in Croydon when Queen Victoria came to the throne
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 Portland NORML News - Sunday, January 25, 1998
They drifted into the crowd of taxi drivers hustling for fares, the vendors and beggars and smugglers, the smoke from the taco stands, the dance music and cantina neon." Robert Collier is on the staff of The Chronicle.
Lisa Cholodenko won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for ``High Art,'' a grim love story between a heroin-snorting lesbian photographer and her female neighbor.
All this is viewed with grim frustration by the former Inspector of Constabulary, Frank Williamson, who was head of the investigation which led to the exposure of corruption in the police force in the Seventies.
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 A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) by Various - Full Text Free Book (Part 10/10)
the Collier of Croydon," is a person who plays a prominent character in
of "Grim, the Collier of Croydon," are sufficient to show that it was
from which the character of Grim is taken.
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 taliesin's log (voices of women)
What we choose to study may often seem complex, but in affairs of the soul it's the same as in physics and the life sciences that interest me: the underlying truths almost invariably prove to be simple ones.
If you get a sense of déjà vu, maybe it's because John Collier's painting of Lilith was chosen on Monday to illustrate a Log entry cross-referencing my chapters on manic-depression.
Since the 1970s, what usually went wrong was the inability of people to avoid taking themselves and their old baggage with them.
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The words of one writer, that his kindliness, wisdom, and moderation entitle him to the lasting grat- itude of the English Church, may be tru- ly cited as expressing the general opinion of his labors.
In his summer home at Croydon and at Lambeth Palace he ap- peared, among the daughters left to him, a loving father and a most gentle host.
I heard him speak of Garfields death from the pulpit of St. Martins - in - the Fields, and I thought it the justest and fittest utterance made on that theme in England.
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From another quarter came the assurance that I was wrong when I set up a tombstone with a name upon it in a Quaker graveyard.
I received a sarcastic letter from a lady on the borders of Sussex and Surrey upon this point, and I immediately sent her a first-class railway ticket to enable her to visit the Quaker churchyard at Croydon, in Surrey, where dead and gone Quakers have tombstones by the score, and inscriptions on them also.
Twice--thrice, like any drunken collier." "Twice," was the prompt correction.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/6/2/6/6267/6267.txt   (21492 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | September 14 | Cornelius Agrippa Dante Alighieri Anacreon ...
And all the youth are now a nutting gone.
From old play of Grim, the Collier of Croydon
The flower is said to present a resemblance to the cross or rood, the nails, and the crown of thorns, used at the Crucifixion.
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/sep14.html   (5148 words)

  
 Old Movie Section
This is the first picture in which Boyd and Miss Sebastian have played together since they were married.
Although at the outset it appears to be another one of those grim, dramatic courtroom affairs, this turns out to be a very enjoyable comedy-drama which continually moves while the actual murderer is rundown.
Roscoe Arbuckle, in chef's attire, distributed hot dogs to the guests, and Harry Tierney, guest of the Jack Warners's, played and sang several hits from "Rio Rita." Oscar Hammerstein took a bow, and even the surfeited motion picture people were thrilled with the pretentious program of entertainment.
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 Titus Andronicus
Over the years of constant Arden reading you build up a list of strange titles of other plays by Shakespeare's predecessors and contemporaries that you make a mental note to get your hands on one day but never do.
Has anyone out there ever read 'Grim, the Collier of Croydon' for instance?
The notes are normally very dry but the new Arden edition (1995) has a much juicier than usual young editor.
www.rsc.org.uk /titus/students/director.html   (2278 words)

  
 English Verse Drama: Bibliography
Made by Maister Edvvards, then beynge Maister of the Children (London: Imprinted...
Fulwell, Ulpian [1568], A pleasant Enterlude, intituled, Like will to Like quoth the Deuill to the Collier.
Wherin is declared what punishments followe those that will rather liue licentiously: then esteeme and followe good Councell.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /efts/EVD/EVD.bib.html   (16817 words)

  
 Curious happenings to the Rooke legatees, ch. 8: Miracle at Monte Carlo (1935) by E. Phillips Oppenheim
based on edition published by P.F. Collier and Son Corporation: New York
"If you tried to catch the two-twenty or took a taxi down to Croydon, you would probably see quite a great deal more of him."
Seymour paid the bill, the two men rose to their feet and strolled towards the door.
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Tunes in Ballad Operas Published With Music:

The collier has a daughter; PLY 60: Collier's Daughter; BWD3 5: The Collier had a Daughter; LRK 6:
Green sleeves; BOP 67: Which no Body can deny; PEN 9: Which no body can deny; JCW 42: Which no Body can deny; MCB 15: At rome there is a terrible rout; SYL 28:
Moll Peatly; ACH 18: Moll Peatly; DEC 5: Gillian of Croydon [D'Urfey song to tune 'Mall Peatly.' BBBM]; FLD 46: Gillion [sic] of Croydon; JCN 6:
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