Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxxii
... Play Endeavours to refine the English Language Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey · 199 Purity and Excellence of his Writings . ― - THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651-1685 . - Fails as Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and ...
... Play Endeavours to refine the English Language Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey · 199 Purity and Excellence of his Writings . ― - THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651-1685 . - Fails as Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and ...
Pàgina 13
... ed . 22 1661 , December 16. After dinner to the Opera [ the Duke's House , or D'Avenant's Theatre ] , where there was a new play ( Cutter of Coleman - street ) What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered.
... ed . 22 1661 , December 16. After dinner to the Opera [ the Duke's House , or D'Avenant's Theatre ] , where there was a new play ( Cutter of Coleman - street ) What firmness they expected , or what weakness Cowley discovered.
Pàgina 14
... play it is difficult now to find the reason it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reason it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
Pàgina 68
... Play , written by a worthy and learned Gent . Dedicated to his father , to show his detestation of it . London , 1645 , sm . 8vo . He would game extremely ; when he had played away all his money he would play away his father's wrought ...
... Play , written by a worthy and learned Gent . Dedicated to his father , to show his detestation of it . London , 1645 , sm . 8vo . He would game extremely ; when he had played away all his money he would play away his father's wrought ...
Pàgina 142
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of super- stitious ignorance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at mid- night ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him ...
... play , and delights himself at night with the fanciful narratives of super- stitious ignorance . The pensive man , at one time , walks unseen to muse at mid- night ; and at another hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him ...
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