The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy and intri- cate , and the events take hold ...
... kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy and intri- cate , and the events take hold ...
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... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for , since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my ...
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for , since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my ...
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... kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smart- ness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations . His comedies have therefore , in some degree ...
... kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smart- ness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations . His comedies have therefore , in some degree ...
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... kind , this age has seen a most audacious ex- ample in the book entitled A Tale of a Tub . Had this writing been published in a pagan or popish nation , who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to the estab- lished religion of ...
... kind , this age has seen a most audacious ex- ample in the book entitled A Tale of a Tub . Had this writing been published in a pagan or popish nation , who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to the estab- lished religion of ...
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... tions of so high a degree are found but in a part of man- kind , yet none of the whole mass , either good or bad , are entirely exempted from some absurd mixture . " He about this time ( Aug. 22 , 1716 ) 22 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... tions of so high a degree are found but in a part of man- kind , yet none of the whole mass , either good or bad , are entirely exempted from some absurd mixture . " He about this time ( Aug. 22 , 1716 ) 22 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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