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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... lefs time than The Virgin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either oftentatiously or mournfully to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how fhort a warning he produced it . It was a tem- porary performance , written in ...
... lefs time than The Virgin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either oftentatiously or mournfully to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how fhort a warning he produced it . It was a tem- porary performance , written in ...
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... to be easily satisfied . His prologues had such reputation , that for fome time a play was confidered as lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not in- troduce troduce it . The price of a prologue was two 34 DRYDEN .
... to be easily satisfied . His prologues had such reputation , that for fome time a play was confidered as lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not in- troduce troduce it . The price of a prologue was two 34 DRYDEN .
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... lefs cogent , by men lefs famed for liberality . Yet Dryden always reprefented himself as fuffering under a public infliction ; and once particularly de- mands refpect for the patience with which he en- dured the lofs of his little ...
... lefs cogent , by men lefs famed for liberality . Yet Dryden always reprefented himself as fuffering under a public infliction ; and once particularly de- mands refpect for the patience with which he en- dured the lofs of his little ...
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... lefs lavish without inconvenience , for James was never faid to have much regard for poetry : he was to be flattered only by adopting his religion . Times were now changed : Dryden was no longer the court - poet , and was to look back ...
... lefs lavish without inconvenience , for James was never faid to have much regard for poetry : he was to be flattered only by adopting his religion . Times were now changed : Dryden was no longer the court - poet , and was to look back ...
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... lefs known , and confe- quently his character became more liable to " misapprehenfions and mifrepresentations : he 66 was very modeft , and very easily to be discoun- " tenanced in his approaches to his equals or fu- 66 periors . As his ...
... lefs known , and confe- quently his character became more liable to " misapprehenfions and mifrepresentations : he 66 was very modeft , and very easily to be discoun- " tenanced in his approaches to his equals or fu- 66 periors . As his ...
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