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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... ftage ; compelled undoubtedly by neceffity , for he 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 ...
... ftage ; compelled undoubtedly by neceffity , for he 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 ...
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... ftage what he borrows from others . Tyrannick Love , or the Virgin Martyr , was an- other tragedy in rhyme , confpicuous for many paf . fages of itrength and elegance , and many of empty noife and ridiculous turbulence . The rants of ...
... ftage what he borrows from others . Tyrannick Love , or the Virgin Martyr , was an- other tragedy in rhyme , confpicuous for many paf . fages of itrength and elegance , and many of empty noife and ridiculous turbulence . The rants of ...
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... ftage , 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 ...
... ftage , 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 ...
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... ftage . If he had known and difliked his own character , our trade was not in those times fecure from his refentment . His country is at fuch a distance , that the manners might be fafely falfified , and the incidents feigned ; for ...
... ftage . If he had known and difliked his own character , our trade was not in those times fecure from his refentment . His country is at fuch a distance , that the manners might be fafely falfified , and the incidents feigned ; for ...
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... ftage . In the dedication to the marquis of Halifax , there is a very elegant character of Charles , and a pleaf- ing account of his latter life . When this was first brought upon the stage , news that the duke of Monmouth had landed ...
... ftage . In the dedication to the marquis of Halifax , there is a very elegant character of Charles , and a pleaf- ing account of his latter life . When this was first brought upon the stage , news that the duke of Monmouth had landed ...
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