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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... genius , or to have much pleased himself with his own dramas . Of the ftage , when he had once invaded it , he kept poffeffion for many years ; not indeed with- out out the competition of rivals who fometimes pre- vailed , + DRYDEN.
... genius , or to have much pleased himself with his own dramas . Of the ftage , when he had once invaded it , he kept poffeffion for many years ; not indeed with- out out the competition of rivals who fometimes pre- vailed , + DRYDEN.
Pàgina 12
... once . ' " " Here is perhaps a fufficient fpecimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of republication , and is not eafily to be found , it may gratify curiofity to quote it more largely . 66 66 ...
... once . ' " " Here is perhaps a fufficient fpecimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of republication , and is not eafily to be found , it may gratify curiofity to quote it more largely . 66 66 ...
Pàgina 17
... once celebrated , are fince forgotten . Of Newcastle's works no- thing is now 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 ...
... once celebrated , are fince forgotten . Of Newcastle's works no- thing is now 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 ...
Pàgina 20
... once the Indian Emperor , " and at another time did he not call himself " Maximin ? Was not Lyndaraxa once called " Almeira ? I mean under Montezuma the Indian 66 Emperor . I proteft and vow they are either " the fame , or fo alike that ...
... once the Indian Emperor , " and at another time did he not call himself " Maximin ? Was not Lyndaraxa once called " Almeira ? I mean under Montezuma the Indian 66 Emperor . I proteft and vow they are either " the fame , or fo alike that ...
Pàgina 25
... once beat those without and those within . " This Almanzor speaks of himfelf ; and fure for one man to conquer an army within the city , ❝and another without the city , at once , is fome- thing difficult ; but this flight is pardonable ...
... once beat those without and those within . " This Almanzor speaks of himfelf ; and fure for one man to conquer an army within the city , ❝and another without the city , at once , is fome- thing difficult ; but this flight is pardonable ...
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