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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Pàgina 30
... play ; but they found it deficient in fome things requifite to the fuccefs of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the ftage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , probably of this , that when Congreve read ...
... play ; but they found it deficient in fome things requifite to the fuccefs of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the ftage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , probably of this , that when Congreve read ...
Pàgina 32
... play , was opened the New Theatre , under the direction of Betterton the tragedian ; where he exhibited two years afterwards ( 1697 ) The Mourning Bride , a tragedy , fo written as to fhew him fufficiently qualified for either kind of ...
... play , was opened the New Theatre , under the direction of Betterton the tragedian ; where he exhibited two years afterwards ( 1697 ) The Mourning Bride , a tragedy , fo written as to fhew him fufficiently qualified for either kind of ...
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... play was The Way of the World which , though as he hints in his dedication , it was written with great labour and much thought , was received with fo little favour , that , being in a high degree offended and difgufted , he refolved to ...
... play was The Way of the World which , though as he hints in his dedication , it was written with great labour and much thought , was received with fo little favour , that , being in a high degree offended and difgufted , he refolved to ...
Pàgina 38
... play- ing to and fro with alternate corufcations . His comedies have therefore , in fome degree , the ope- ration of tragedies ; they furprife rather than divert , and raife admiration oftener than merriment . But they are the works of ...
... play- ing to and fro with alternate corufcations . His comedies have therefore , in fome degree , the ope- ration of tragedies ; they furprife rather than divert , and raife admiration oftener than merriment . But they are the works of ...
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... play among the trees . How fome , enraged , grow turbulent and loud , Pent in the bowels of a frowning cloud ; That cracks , as if the axis of the world Was broke , and heaven's bright towers were down- wards hurl'd . He fung how ...
... play among the trees . How fome , enraged , grow turbulent and loud , Pent in the bowels of a frowning cloud ; That cracks , as if the axis of the world Was broke , and heaven's bright towers were down- wards hurl'd . He fung how ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1782 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1783 |
The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1865 |
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