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 11
... reader a particular remark . Having gone through the first act , he fays , " To " conclude this act with the moft rumbling piece " of nonsense spoken yet , " To flattering lightning our feign'd fmiles conform , " Which back'd with ...
... reader a particular remark . Having gone through the first act , he fays , " To " conclude this act with the moft rumbling piece " of nonsense spoken yet , " To flattering lightning our feign'd fmiles conform , " Which back'd with ...
Pàgina 17
... . Of this play he takes care to let the reader know , that it was contrived and written in seven weeks . Want of time was often his excufe , or B 3 perhaps f perhaps fhortness of time was his private boast in DRYDEN . 17.
... . Of this play he takes care to let the reader know , that it was contrived and written in seven weeks . Want of time was often his excufe , or B 3 perhaps f perhaps fhortness of time was his private boast in DRYDEN . 17.
Pàgina 33
... readers , that he must have improved his fortune ; at least , that such diligence with fuch abilities must have fet penury at defiance . But in Dryden's time the drama was very far from that univerfal approbation which it has now ob ...
... readers , that he must have improved his fortune ; at least , that such diligence with fuch abilities must have fet penury at defiance . But in Dryden's time the drama was very far from that univerfal approbation which it has now ob ...
Pàgina 34
... readers made fuddenly too skilful 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 ...
... readers made fuddenly too skilful 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 ...
Pàgina 40
... readers to the poem . There is no need to enquire why those verses were read , which , to all the at- tractions of wit , elegance , and harmony , added the co - operation of all the factious paffions , and filled every mind with triumph ...
... readers to the poem . There is no need to enquire why those verses were read , which , to all the at- tractions of wit , elegance , and harmony , added the co - operation of all the factious paffions , and filled every mind with triumph ...
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