The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 1253 pàgines |
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... filling the house , are not always the fureft marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generofity of all the perfons of a refined tafte about about town was remarkable on this occafion ; and it 10 S MIT H.
... filling the house , are not always the fureft marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generofity of all the perfons of a refined tafte about about town was remarkable on this occafion ; and it 10 S MIT H.
Pàgina 20
... play pleafed the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addifon has recorded , third night . Smith had indeed trufted entirely to his merit , had enfured no band of applauders , nor ufed any artifice to force fuccefs , and found ...
... play pleafed the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addifon has recorded , third night . Smith had indeed trufted entirely to his merit , had enfured no band of applauders , nor ufed any artifice to force fuccefs , and found ...
Pàgina 21
... play , fuch as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and ele- gant mind , accuftomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the courfe of life . Dennis tells us ...
... play , fuch as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and ele- gant mind , accuftomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the courfe of life . Dennis tells us ...
Pàgina 25
... play a prologue from Ad- dison , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldifworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my converfation ...
... play a prologue from Ad- dison , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax , and the praise of Oldifworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my converfation ...
Pàgina 63
... play does not fufficiently cor- refpond with the behaviour of Califta , who at last fhews no evident figns of repentance , but may be reasonably fufpected of feeling pain from detection rather than from guilt , and expreffes more fhame ...
... play does not fufficiently cor- refpond with the behaviour of Califta , who at last fhews no evident figns of repentance , but may be reasonably fufpected of feeling pain from detection rather than from guilt , and expreffes more fhame ...
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