The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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Pàgina 24
... Against thofe that ac- cufed him of plagiarism , he alleges a fa- vourable expreffion of the king : “ He only defired that they , who accufe me of " thefts , would steal him plays like mine ; " and then relates how much labour he spends ...
... Against thofe that ac- cufed him of plagiarism , he alleges a fa- vourable expreffion of the king : “ He only defired that they , who accufe me of " thefts , would steal him plays like mine ; " and then relates how much labour he spends ...
Pàgina 37
... against the opinion , as the author fays , of the best judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment and unreafonable cenfure ...
... against the opinion , as the author fays , of the best judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment and unreafonable cenfure ...
Pàgina 38
... against the Papists , it would naturally at that time have friends and enemies ; and partly by the popularity which it obtained at first , and partly by the real power both of the serious and rifible part , it continued long a favourite ...
... against the Papists , it would naturally at that time have friends and enemies ; and partly by the popularity which it obtained at first , and partly by the real power both of the serious and rifible part , it continued long a favourite ...
Pàgina 40
... against the Republicans . With what fuccefs it was performed , I have not found . The State of Innocence and Fall of Man is termed by him an opera : it is rather a tra- gedy in heroick rhyme , but of which the perfonages are fuch as ...
... against the Republicans . With what fuccefs it was performed , I have not found . The State of Innocence and Fall of Man is termed by him an opera : it is rather a tra- gedy in heroick rhyme , but of which the perfonages are fuch as ...
Pàgina 41
... against me . " These copies as they gathered faults were apparent ly manufcript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tran- scribed . An author has a right to ...
... against me . " These copies as they gathered faults were apparent ly manufcript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tran- scribed . An author has a right to ...
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