The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... composition and fate of eight and - twenty dramas include too much of a poetical life to be omitted . IN 1664 , he published the Rival Ladies , which he dedicated to the Earl of Orrery , a man of high repu- tation both as a writer and ...
... composition and fate of eight and - twenty dramas include too much of a poetical life to be omitted . IN 1664 , he published the Rival Ladies , which he dedicated to the Earl of Orrery , a man of high repu- tation both as a writer and ...
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... Composition is addressed to the Princess of Modena , then Duchess of York , in a strain of flat- tery which disgraces genius , and which it was won- derful that any man that knew the meaning of his own words could use without self ...
... Composition is addressed to the Princess of Modena , then Duchess of York , in a strain of flat- tery which disgraces genius , and which it was won- derful that any man that knew the meaning of his own words could use without self ...
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... composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as since the time of Lopez de Vega , perhaps no other author has ever possessed . He did not enjoy his reputation , however great , nor his profits , however ...
... composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as since the time of Lopez de Vega , perhaps no other author has ever possessed . He did not enjoy his reputation , however great , nor his profits , however ...
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... composition of eight - and - twenty pieces for the stage , Dryden found room in the same space for many other undertakings . But , how much soever he wrote , he was at least once suspected of writing more ; for , in 1679 , a pa- per of ...
... composition of eight - and - twenty pieces for the stage , Dryden found room in the same space for many other undertakings . But , how much soever he wrote , he was at least once suspected of writing more ; for , in 1679 , a pa- per of ...
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... compositions , Dryden apparently imputes Absalom senior to Settle , by quoting in his verses against him the second line . Azaria and Hushai was , as Wood says , imputed to him , though it is somewhat unlike- ly that he should write ...
... compositions , Dryden apparently imputes Absalom senior to Settle , by quoting in his verses against him the second line . Azaria and Hushai was , as Wood says , imputed to him , though it is somewhat unlike- ly that he should write ...
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