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
... laft biographer , Derrick , to have inherited from his father an estate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of thefe parti , culars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to ...
... laft biographer , Derrick , to have inherited from his father an estate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of thefe parti , culars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to ...
Pàgina 2
... laft exalts them into ftars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whofe corps might feem a conftellation . At the univerfity he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have la- vifhed his ...
... laft exalts them into ftars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whofe corps might feem a conftellation . At the univerfity he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have la- vifhed his ...
Pàgina 27
... laft fcene in the third act is a maflerpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of criticism in tragedy ; to which I fufpect that Rymer's book had given occafion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy , eminent for the ...
... laft fcene in the third act is a maflerpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of criticism in tragedy ; to which I fufpect that Rymer's book had given occafion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy , eminent for the ...
Pàgina 33
... laft work that Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to fee it exhibited ; and it does not feem to have been ever brought upon the ftage . In the dedication to the marquis of Halifax , there is a very elegant character of ...
... laft work that Dryden performed for King Charles , who did not live to fee it exhibited ; and it does not feem to have been ever brought upon the ftage . In the dedication to the marquis of Halifax , there is a very elegant character of ...
Pàgina 42
... laft , and feems not much to have deferved even this degree of regard , if it was paid to his political opinions ; for he afterwards wrote a panegyrick on the vir- tues of Judge Jefferies , and what more could have been done by the ...
... laft , and feems not much to have deferved even this degree of regard , if it was paid to his political opinions ; for he afterwards wrote a panegyrick on the vir- tues of Judge Jefferies , and what more could have been done by the ...
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