The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1800 |
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Pàgina 26
... against the opinion , as the author fays , of the best judges . It is dedi- cated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment and unreafon- able ...
... against the opinion , as the author fays , of the best judges . It is dedi- cated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment and unreafon- able ...
Pàgina 27
... against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated the Spartans . This play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 ...
... against their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated the Spartans . This play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 ...
Pàgina 28
... against the Re- publicans . With what fuccefs it was performed , I have not found . The State of Innocence and Fall of Man is termed by him an opera : it is rather a tragedy in heroick rhyme , but of which the perfonages are fuch as ...
... against the Re- publicans . With what fuccefs it was performed , I have not found . The State of Innocence and Fall of Man is termed by him an opera : it is rather a tragedy in heroick rhyme , but of which the perfonages are fuch as ...
Pàgina 29
... against me . " These copies as they gathered faults were apparently manuscript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred co- C 3 pies pies of fourteen hundred lines were likely to be transcribed DRYDEN . 29.
... against me . " These copies as they gathered faults were apparently manuscript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred co- C 3 pies pies of fourteen hundred lines were likely to be transcribed DRYDEN . 29.
Pàgina 36
... against Davenant , who in the first draught was characterised by the name of Bilboa . Davenant had been a foldier and an adventurer . venant . There is one paffage in the Rehearsal still remain- ing , which feems to have related ...
... against Davenant , who in the first draught was characterised by the name of Bilboa . Davenant had been a foldier and an adventurer . venant . There is one paffage in the Rehearsal still remain- ing , which feems to have related ...
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