assignation
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In "The Assignation" he says of the Marchesa Aphrodite, "Her hair … clustered round and round her classical head, in curls like those of the young hyacinth."
From Selections from Poe by Gambrill, J. Montgomery
Assignation or no, she would have seen, had she looked closer, that the young man in question was in no merely beatific or expectant frame of mind.
From The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Dryden attacked one of his plays, The Citizen turned Gentleman, an imitation of Molière's Bourgeois-Gentilhomme, in the Prologue to The Assignation.
From The Love-Tiff by Molière
The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery, a comedy, 1673, was driven off the stage, "against the opinion," as the author says, "of the best judges."
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
Additions were afterwards made to The Rehearsal, and among these are the parodies on Assignation, which are not to be found in Buckingham's play as it originally appeared.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
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