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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... publick . It was Dryden's opinion , at least for some time , and he maintains it in the dedication of this play , that the drama required an al- ternation of comick and tragick fcenes , and that it is neceffary to mitigate by allevia ...
... publick . It was Dryden's opinion , at least for some time , and he maintains it in the dedication of this play , that the drama required an al- ternation of comick and tragick fcenes , and that it is neceffary to mitigate by allevia ...
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... publick judgment must have been much improved ; and Swift , who con- verfed with Dryden , relates that he regretted the fuccefs of his own instructions , and found his readers made fuddenly too skilful to be easily satisfied , His ...
... publick judgment must have been much improved ; and Swift , who con- verfed with Dryden , relates that he regretted the fuccefs of his own instructions , and found his readers made fuddenly too skilful to be easily satisfied , His ...
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... a mistress . The earl of Rochester , to fuppress the re- putation of Dryden , took Settle into his pro- tection , and endeavoured to perfuade the publick publick that its approbation had been to that time mifplaced 52 DRY D E N.
... a mistress . The earl of Rochester , to fuppress the re- putation of Dryden , took Settle into his pro- tection , and endeavoured to perfuade the publick publick that its approbation had been to that time mifplaced 52 DRY D E N.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. publick that its approbation had been to that time mifplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation his Empress of Morocco , having first delighted the town , was carried in tri ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. publick that its approbation had been to that time mifplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation his Empress of Morocco , having first delighted the town , was carried in tri ...
Pàgina 55
... in a crowd , he had no awe of the publick ; and writing merely for money , was contented to get it by the nearest way . In 1680 , the Epiftles of Ovid being trans- Е. E 4 lated € lated by the poets of the time , among DRYDEN . 55.
... in a crowd , he had no awe of the publick ; and writing merely for money , was contented to get it by the nearest way . In 1680 , the Epiftles of Ovid being trans- Е. E 4 lated € lated by the poets of the time , among DRYDEN . 55.
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