The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... play was exhibited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was , some years afterwards , altered and revived ; but since the plays are said to be printed in the order in which they were written , from the dates of ...
... play was exhibited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was , some years afterwards , altered and revived ; but since the plays are said to be printed in the order in which they were written , from the dates of ...
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... play he made his essay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends , in his dedication , with sufficient certain- ty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the ...
... play he made his essay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends , in his dedication , with sufficient certain- ty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the ...
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... play is prefixed a very vehement defence of dramatick rhyme , in confutation of the preface to the Duke of Lerma , in which Sir Robert Howard had censured it . IN 1667 he published Annus Mirabilis , the Year of Wonders , which may be ...
... play is prefixed a very vehement defence of dramatick rhyme , in confutation of the preface to the Duke of Lerma , in which Sir Robert Howard had censured it . IN 1667 he published Annus Mirabilis , the Year of Wonders , which may be ...
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... play is dated the year in which the Annus Mirabilis was published , Here appears a strange inconsisten but Langbaine affords some help , by relating that the answer to Ho- ward was not published in the first edition of the play , but ...
... play is dated the year in which the Annus Mirabilis was published , Here appears a strange inconsisten but Langbaine affords some help , by relating that the answer to Ho- ward was not published in the first edition of the play , but ...
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... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Devenant ; whom , ' says he , I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those first ...
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Devenant ; whom , ' says he , I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those first ...
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