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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... publick . His first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was fo much difapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to the form in ...
... publick . His first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was fo much difapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to the form in ...
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... publick . It was Dryden's opinion , at least for some time , and he maintains it in the dedication of this play , that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes , and that it is neceffary to mitigate by alleviations ...
... publick . It was Dryden's opinion , at least for some time , and he maintains it in the dedication of this play , that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes , and that it is neceffary to mitigate by alleviations ...
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... publick judgment must have been much improved ; and Swift , who converfed with Dryden , relates that he regretted the fuc- cefs of his own inftructions , and found his readers made fuddenly too skilful to be easily satisfied . His ...
... publick judgment must have been much improved ; and Swift , who converfed with Dryden , relates that he regretted the fuc- cefs of his own inftructions , and found his readers made fuddenly too skilful to be easily satisfied . His ...
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... publick that its ap- probation had been to that time mifplaced . Set- tle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having firft delighted the town , was car ried in triumph to Whitehall , and played by the ladies of the ...
... publick that its ap- probation had been to that time mifplaced . Set- tle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having firft delighted the town , was car ried in triumph to Whitehall , and played by the ladies of the ...
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... publick ; and writing merely for money , was contented to get it by the nearest way . In 1680 , the Epiftles of Ovid being translated by the poets of the time , among which one was the work of Dryden , and another of Dryden and Lord ...
... publick ; and writing merely for money , was contented to get it by the nearest way . In 1680 , the Epiftles of Ovid being translated by the poets of the time , among which one was the work of Dryden , and another of Dryden and Lord ...
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