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 2
... appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have la- vifhed his early wit either on fictitious fubjects or public occafions . He probably confidered that he who purposed to be an author , ought firft to be a ftudent . He ...
... appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have la- vifhed his early wit either on fictitious fubjects or public occafions . He probably confidered that he who purposed to be an author , ought firft to be a ftudent . He ...
Pàgina 4
... appears never to have loved that exercife of his genius , or to have much pleased himself with his own dramas . Of the ftage , when he had once invaded it , he kept poffeffion for many years ; not indeed with- out out the competition of ...
... appears never to have loved that exercife of his genius , or to have much pleased himself with his own dramas . Of the ftage , when he had once invaded it , he kept poffeffion for many years ; not indeed with- out out the competition of ...
Pàgina 8
... appears a ftrange inconfiftency ; but Langbaine affords fome help , by relating that the answer to Howard was not published in the first edition of the play , but was added when it was afterwards reprinted ; and as the Duke of Lerma did ...
... appears a ftrange inconfiftency ; but Langbaine affords fome help , by relating that the answer to Howard was not published in the first edition of the play , but was added when it was afterwards reprinted ; and as the Duke of Lerma did ...
Pàgina 15
... A fenfeless tale , with flattering fustian fill'd . " No grain of fenfe does in one line appear , Thy words big bulks of boisterous bombaft bear . B 2 With " With noife they move , and from players mouths DRYDEN . 15.
... A fenfeless tale , with flattering fustian fill'd . " No grain of fenfe does in one line appear , Thy words big bulks of boisterous bombaft bear . B 2 With " With noife they move , and from players mouths DRYDEN . 15.
Pàgina 18
... appears . He fights with- out enquiring the caufe , and loves in fpite of the obligations of justice , of rejection by his mistress , and of prohibition from the dead . Yet the fcenes are , for the most part , delightful ; they exhibit ...
... appears . He fights with- out enquiring the caufe , and loves in fpite of the obligations of justice , of rejection by his mistress , and of prohibition from the dead . Yet the fcenes are , for the most part , delightful ; they exhibit ...
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