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 1
... known beyond what cafual mention and uncertain tradition have supplied , JOHN DRYDEN was born Auguft 9 , 1631 , at Aldwincle near Oundle , the fon of Erafmus Dry- den of Tichmerfh ; who was the third fon of Sir Erafmus Dryden , Baronet ...
... known beyond what cafual mention and uncertain tradition have supplied , JOHN DRYDEN was born Auguft 9 , 1631 , at Aldwincle near Oundle , the fon of Erafmus Dry- den of Tichmerfh ; who was the third fon of Sir Erafmus Dryden , Baronet ...
Pàgina 2
... ought firft to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was ex- cluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to . guefs ; guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew DRYDEN .
... ought firft to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was ex- cluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to . guefs ; guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew DRYDEN .
Pàgina 4
... known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and re- vived ; but fince the plays are faid to be printed in the order in which they were written , from the dates of fome , those of others may be inferred ...
... known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and re- vived ; but fince the plays are faid to be printed in the order in which they were written , from the dates of fome , those of others may be inferred ...
Pàgina 17
... known but his treatise on horse- manship . The preface feems very elaborately written , and contains many just remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shakspeare's plots , he fays , are in the hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of ...
... known but his treatise on horse- manship . The preface feems very elaborately written , and contains many just remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shakspeare's plots , he fays , are in the hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of ...
Pàgina 30
... 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 remoteness of place is ...
... 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 remoteness of place is ...
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