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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... given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what cafual mention and uncertain tradition have supplied , JOHN DRYDEN was born Auguft 9 , 1631 , at ...
... given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and nothing therefore can be known beyond what cafual mention and uncertain tradition have supplied , JOHN DRYDEN was born Auguft 9 , 1631 , at ...
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... given to the audience by printed bills , distributed at the door ; an expedient fuppofed to be ridiculed in the Rehearsal , when Bayes tells how many reams he has printed , to inftill into the audience fome conception of his plot . In ...
... given to the audience by printed bills , distributed at the door ; an expedient fuppofed to be ridiculed in the Rehearsal , when Bayes tells how many reams he has printed , to inftill into the audience fome conception of his plot . In ...
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... given Ad- difon a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen , is a tragi- comedy . In the preface he difcuffes a curious queftion , whether a poet can judge well of his own productions : and determines very ...
... given Ad- difon a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen , is a tragi- comedy . In the preface he difcuffes a curious queftion , whether a poet can judge well of his own productions : and determines very ...
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... given poor Dryden great disturbance . He tries however to ease his pain , by venting his malice in a parody . 66 " The poet has not only been fo impudent to ex- " pofe all this ftuff , but so arrogant to defend it " with an epiftle ...
... given poor Dryden great disturbance . He tries however to ease his pain , by venting his malice in a parody . 66 " The poet has not only been fo impudent to ex- " pofe all this ftuff , but so arrogant to defend it " with an epiftle ...
Pàgina 16
... given , " As men in whispers send loud noise to heaven . " Thus I have daubed him with his own pud- " dle and now we are come from aboard his dan- " cing , masking , rebounding , breathing fleet ; and " as if we had landed at Gotham ...
... given , " As men in whispers send loud noise to heaven . " Thus I have daubed him with his own pud- " dle and now we are come from aboard his dan- " cing , masking , rebounding , breathing fleet ; and " as if we had landed at Gotham ...
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