The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... formed his taste by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dex- terity of versification he was more likely to excel o thers in ...
... formed his taste by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to please , and who perhaps knew that by his dex- terity of versification he was more likely to excel o thers in ...
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... formed ; but , with respect to the dramatick writers , he has given us in his prefaces , and in this postscript , something equivalent ; but his purpose being to exalt himself by the comparison , he shews faults distinct- ly , and only ...
... formed ; but , with respect to the dramatick writers , he has given us in his prefaces , and in this postscript , something equivalent ; but his purpose being to exalt himself by the comparison , he shews faults distinct- ly , and only ...
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... formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and composed the first and third acts . DON Sebastian ( 1690 ) is commonly esteemed either the first or ...
... formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and composed the first and third acts . DON Sebastian ( 1690 ) is commonly esteemed either the first or ...
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... acted on the day the Duke of Monmouth land . ed in the West , who intimates this as the reason why it was per formed only six times , and ill received . universal approbation which it has now obtained . The playhouse c 2 DRYDEN . 27.
... acted on the day the Duke of Monmouth land . ed in the West , who intimates this as the reason why it was per formed only six times , and ill received . universal approbation which it has now obtained . The playhouse c 2 DRYDEN . 27.
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... formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He considered the epick as necessarily in- cluding some kind of supernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian ...
... formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He considered the epick as necessarily in- cluding some kind of supernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian ...
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