The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... flows necessarily from the occasion , or is dictated by nature . The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and the . ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol a CONGREVE . 17.
... flows necessarily from the occasion , or is dictated by nature . The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial , as those of Heartwell and the . ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol a CONGREVE . 17.
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... natural characters . This , however , was received with more benevolence than any other of his works , and still ... nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the ...
... natural characters . This , however , was received with more benevolence than any other of his works , and still ... nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the ...
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... nature and justice to encourage him in that noble design , of which he is more capable than any man I know . - DRYDEN : Dedication of Third Miscellany , 1698. Dryden , moreover , honoured him with an Epistle in verse , and entrusted him ...
... nature and justice to encourage him in that noble design , of which he is more capable than any man I know . - DRYDEN : Dedication of Third Miscellany , 1698. Dryden , moreover , honoured him with an Epistle in verse , and entrusted him ...
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... nature and not much of life . He formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay re- marks and unexpected answers ; but that which he endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not ...
... nature and not much of life . He formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay re- marks and unexpected answers ; but that which he endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not ...
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... nature , lament the death of Queen Mary in lines like these : 23 Johnson said [ 16th Oct. 1769 ] that the description of the temple in ' The Mourning Bride ' was the finest poetical passage he had ever read ; he recollected none in ...
... nature , lament the death of Queen Mary in lines like these : 23 Johnson said [ 16th Oct. 1769 ] that the description of the temple in ' The Mourning Bride ' was the finest poetical passage he had ever read ; he recollected none in ...
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