The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . ' It is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed for such a time of life , uncom- monly judicious . I would rather praise ...
... performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . ' It is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed for such a time of life , uncom- monly judicious . I would rather praise ...
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... performance ; for , whenever written , it was acted ( January 1692-3 ) when he was not more than twenty - one [ four ] years old ; and was then recommended by Mr. Dryden , Mr. Southerne , and Mr. Maynwaring . Dryden said that he never ...
... performance ; for , whenever written , it was acted ( January 1692-3 ) when he was not more than twenty - one [ four ] years old ; and was then recommended by Mr. Dryden , Mr. Southerne , and Mr. Maynwaring . Dryden said that he never ...
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... performance perfection cannot be expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the Poets ' Company , having never kissed ...
... performance perfection cannot be expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the Poets ' Company , having never kissed ...
Pàgina 35
... performance Dryden , who pursued him with great malignity , lived long enough to ridicule in a prologue . " 1 The wits easily confederated against him , as Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He ...
... performance Dryden , who pursued him with great malignity , lived long enough to ridicule in a prologue . " 1 The wits easily confederated against him , as Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He ...
Pàgina 37
... performances will do it injury . The praise given it by Addison ( ' Spec . ' 339 ) is too well known to be transcribed ; but some notice is due to the testimony of Dennis , who calls it a " philo- sophical poem , which has equalled that ...
... performances will do it injury . The praise given it by Addison ( ' Spec . ' 339 ) is too well known to be transcribed ; but some notice is due to the testimony of Dennis , who calls it a " philo- sophical poem , which has equalled that ...
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