The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... remark . Hav- ing gone through the first act , he says , To conclude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet : 6 To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which , back'd with thunder , do but gild a storm ...
... remark . Hav- ing gone through the first act , he says , To conclude this act with the most rumbling piece of nonsense spoken yet : 6 To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform , Which , back'd with thunder , do but gild a storm ...
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... remarks on the Fathers of the English Drama . Shakespeare's plots , he says , are in the hundred Novels of Cinthio ; those of Beau- mont and Fletcher in Spanish stories ; Jonson only made them for himself . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
... remarks on the Fathers of the English Drama . Shakespeare's plots , he says , are in the hundred Novels of Cinthio ; those of Beau- mont and Fletcher in Spanish stories ; Jonson only made them for himself . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
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... remarks . But let honest credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
... remarks . But let honest credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
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... of Morocco were these lines : Jon I'll travel then to some remoter sphere , Till I find out new worlds , and crown you there , ' ON which Dryden made this remark : I BELIEVE Our learned author takes a sphere for a B 3 DRYDEN . 17.
... of Morocco were these lines : Jon I'll travel then to some remoter sphere , Till I find out new worlds , and crown you there , ' ON which Dryden made this remark : I BELIEVE Our learned author takes a sphere for a B 3 DRYDEN . 17.
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... remarks upon it , to have written an An- swer ; upon which Burnet makes the following ob- servation : If you dont on 2004 tonnes of 157 I HAVE been informed from England , that a gen- tleman , who is famous both for poetry and several ...
... remarks upon it , to have written an An- swer ; upon which Burnet makes the following ob- servation : If you dont on 2004 tonnes of 157 I HAVE been informed from England , that a gen- tleman , who is famous both for poetry and several ...
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