The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste about town was remarkable on this occasion ; and it must not be forgotten how zealously Mr. Addison espoused his interest , with all the elegant judgment and ...
... play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined taste about town was remarkable on this occasion ; and it must not be forgotten how zealously Mr. Addison espoused his interest , with all the elegant judgment and ...
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... play pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
... play pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
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... play , such as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and elegant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells , in one ...
... play , such as may please the reader rather than the spectator ; the work of a vigorous and elegant mind , accustomed to please itself with its own conceptions , but of little acquaintance with the course of life . Dennis tells , in one ...
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... play a prologue from Addison , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation with ...
... play a prologue from Addison , and an epilogue from Prior ; and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating these minute memorials , I am indebted to my conversation with ...
Pàgina 47
... play does not sufficiently correspond with the behaviour of Calista , who at last shows no evident signs of repentance , but may be reasonably suspected of feeling pain from detection rather than from guilt , and expresses more shame ...
... play does not sufficiently correspond with the behaviour of Calista , who at last shows no evident signs of repentance , but may be reasonably suspected of feeling pain from detection rather than from guilt , and expresses more shame ...
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