The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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Pàgina 16
... Against thofe that accufed him of plagiarifm he alleges a favourable expreffion of the king : " He only defired , that they " who accufe me of thefts would fteal him plays " like mine ; " and then relates how much labour he fpends in ...
... Against thofe that accufed him of plagiarifm he alleges a favourable expreffion of the king : " He only defired , that they " who accufe me of thefts would fteal him plays " like mine ; " and then relates how much labour he fpends in ...
Pàgina 25
... against the opinion , as the author fays , of the best judges . It is dedi- cated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment and unreasonable cenfure ...
... against the opinion , as the author fays , of the best judges . It is dedi- cated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment and unreasonable cenfure ...
Pàgina 27
... against the Leaguers of France and the Covenanters of Eng-- land ; and this intention produced the controversy . Albion and Albanius ( 1685 ) is a musical drama or opera , written , like the Duke of Guife , against the Republicans ...
... against the Leaguers of France and the Covenanters of Eng-- land ; and this intention produced the controversy . Albion and Albanius ( 1685 ) is a musical drama or opera , written , like the Duke of Guife , against the Republicans ...
Pàgina 28
... against " me . " Thefe copies , as they gathered faults , were apparently manufcript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tranfcribed . An author has a right to ...
... against " me . " Thefe copies , as they gathered faults , were apparently manufcript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tranfcribed . An author has a right to ...
Pàgina 35
... against Davenant , who , in the firft draught , was characterised by the name of Bilboa , Davenant had been a foldier and an adventurer . There is one paffage in the Rebear fal ftill remain- ing , which feems to have related originally ...
... against Davenant , who , in the firft draught , was characterised by the name of Bilboa , Davenant had been a foldier and an adventurer . There is one paffage in the Rebear fal ftill remain- ing , which feems to have related originally ...
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