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 5
... mind through the whole feries of his dramatick performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take efpecial notice of thofe that are diftinguished by any peculiarity intrinfick or concomitant ; for the compofition and ...
... mind through the whole feries of his dramatick performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take efpecial notice of thofe that are diftinguished by any peculiarity intrinfick or concomitant ; for the compofition and ...
Pàgina 9
... minds was , that to Shakspeare's monfter Caliban is added a fifter - monfter Sicofax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never seen a man , is in this brought acquainted with a man that had never feen a woman . About this ...
... minds was , that to Shakspeare's monfter Caliban is added a fifter - monfter Sicofax ; and a woman , who , in the original play , had never seen a man , is in this brought acquainted with a man that had never feen a woman . About this ...
Pàgina 16
... minds thus levelled with the meaneft , may produce fome folace to the consciousnefs of weakness , and fome mortifica- tion to the pride of wisdom . But let it be remem- bered , that minds are not levelled in their powers but when they ...
... minds thus levelled with the meaneft , may produce fome folace to the consciousnefs of weakness , and fome mortifica- tion to the pride of wisdom . But let it be remem- bered , that minds are not levelled in their powers but when they ...
Pàgina 33
... mind , is confeffed by the author to be defective . Thus he began and ended his dramatick labours with ill fuccefs . From fuch a number of theatrical pieces it will be fuppofed , by moft readers , that he must have improved his fortune ...
... mind , is confeffed by the author to be defective . Thus he began and ended his dramatick labours with ill fuccefs . From fuch a number of theatrical pieces it will be fuppofed , by moft readers , that he must have improved his fortune ...
Pàgina 40
... mind was interested , the recep- tion was eager , and the sale so large , that my father , an old bookfeller , told me , he had not known it equalled but by Sacheverell's trial . The reafon of this general perufal Addison has attempted ...
... mind was interested , the recep- tion was eager , and the sale so large , that my father , an old bookfeller , told me , he had not known it equalled but by Sacheverell's trial . The reafon of this general perufal Addison has attempted ...
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