The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3D. Buchanan, sold by him, & by W. Creech, P. Hill, W. Mudie, & A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1800 |
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... manners , and daily incidents , it apparently prefuppofes a familiar knowledge of many charac- ters , and exact obfervation of the paffing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this . knowledge can be obtained by a boy ...
... manners , and daily incidents , it apparently prefuppofes a familiar knowledge of many charac- ters , and exact obfervation of the paffing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this . knowledge can be obtained by a boy ...
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... tion in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his prolific pen produced Love for Love : a comedy of nearer alliance to life , and exhibiting more real manners , than either of the C4 and CONGREVE . 31.
... tion in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his prolific pen produced Love for Love : a comedy of nearer alliance to life , and exhibiting more real manners , than either of the C4 and CONGREVE . 31.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. and exhibiting more real manners , than either of the former . The character of Forefight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and king William had their ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. and exhibiting more real manners , than either of the former . The character of Forefight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and king William had their ...
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... manners were polite and his converfation- pleafing . He feems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper to the Tatler , though published by men with whom he might be ...
... manners were polite and his converfation- pleafing . He feems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper to the Tatler , though published by men with whom he might be ...
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... manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot fpeak diftinctly ; for fince I inspected them many years have paffed ; but what remains upon my memory is , that his characters are commonly fictitious and artificial , with very little of ...
... manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot fpeak diftinctly ; for fince I inspected them many years have paffed ; but what remains upon my memory is , that his characters are commonly fictitious and artificial , with very little of ...
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