The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... hand at fools , and a great felicity in writing nonsense for them . Fools they will be in spite of him . His King , his two Em- presses , his Villain , and his Sub - villain , nay his Hero , have all a certain natural cast of the father ...
... hand at fools , and a great felicity in writing nonsense for them . Fools they will be in spite of him . His King , his two Em- presses , his Villain , and his Sub - villain , nay his Hero , have all a certain natural cast of the father ...
Pàgina 23
... on the stage . Some such production was foreseen by Marvel , who writes thus to Milton : • Or if a work so infinite be spann'd , out bus „ boflebi Jealous was lest some less skilful hand ( Such , as disquiet always what is well And DRYDEN .
... on the stage . Some such production was foreseen by Marvel , who writes thus to Milton : • Or if a work so infinite be spann'd , out bus „ boflebi Jealous was lest some less skilful hand ( Such , as disquiet always what is well And DRYDEN .
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... hands employed upon this performance ; in which , though by some artifice of action it yet keeps possession of the stage , it is not possible now to find any thing that might not have been written without so long delay , or a con ...
... hands employed upon this performance ; in which , though by some artifice of action it yet keeps possession of the stage , it is not possible now to find any thing that might not have been written without so long delay , or a con ...
Pàgina 30
... hand . THE Rehearsal was played in 1671 , and yet it is represented as ridiculing passages in the Conquest of Granada and Assignation , which were not publish- ed till 1678 ; in Marriage - a - la - Mode , published in 1673 ; and in ...
... hand . THE Rehearsal was played in 1671 , and yet it is represented as ridiculing passages in the Conquest of Granada and Assignation , which were not publish- ed till 1678 ; in Marriage - a - la - Mode , published in 1673 ; and in ...
Pàgina 31
... would , by denying part of the charge , have confessed the rest ; and , as his adversaries had the proof in their own hands , he , who knew that wit had little power against facts , wisely left , in that perplexity which it DRYDEN . 31.
... would , by denying part of the charge , have confessed the rest ; and , as his adversaries had the proof in their own hands , he , who knew that wit had little power against facts , wisely left , in that perplexity which it DRYDEN . 31.
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