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 44
... ment , because it so much expofed the keeping part of the town . Oedipus is a tragedy formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed the first ...
... ment , because it so much expofed the keeping part of the town . Oedipus is a tragedy formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed the first ...
Pàgina 57
... ment . It could not be fuppofed that all the pro- vocation given by Dryden would be endured without refiftance or reply . Both his perfon and his party were expofed in their turns to the shafts of fatire , which , though neither fo well ...
... ment . It could not be fuppofed that all the pro- vocation given by Dryden would be endured without refiftance or reply . Both his perfon and his party were expofed in their turns to the shafts of fatire , which , though neither fo well ...
Pàgina 64
... ment for him as the converfation that he " had fet on between the Hinds and Pan- " thers , and all the reft of animals , for " whom M. Varillas may serve well " enough as an author : and this history " and that poem are fuch ...
... ment for him as the converfation that he " had fet on between the Hinds and Pan- " thers , and all the reft of animals , for " whom M. Varillas may serve well " enough as an author : and this history " and that poem are fuch ...
Pàgina 68
... ment than it would be to a fanatic parfon to be forbid feeing the Cheats and the Committee ; or for my Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be in- terdicted the fight of the London Cuckold .. This is the general strain , and therefore I fhall be ...
... ment than it would be to a fanatic parfon to be forbid feeing the Cheats and the Committee ; or for my Lord Mayor and Aldermen to be in- terdicted the fight of the London Cuckold .. This is the general strain , and therefore I fhall be ...
Pàgina 76
... ment in the Abbey ; which , as they had 66 no reason to refufe , they accepted . On the " Saturday following the company came : " the corpfe was put into a velvet hearse , " and eighteen mourning coaches , filled " with company ...
... ment in the Abbey ; which , as they had 66 no reason to refufe , they accepted . On the " Saturday following the company came : " the corpfe was put into a velvet hearse , " and eighteen mourning coaches , filled " with company ...
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