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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... Earl of Orrery , a man of high reputation both as a writer and as a statesman In this play he made his effay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with fufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was ...
... Earl of Orrery , a man of high reputation both as a writer and as a statesman In this play he made his effay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with fufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was ...
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... Earl of Orrery , in compliance with the opinion of Charles the Second , who had formed his tafte by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to pleafe , and who perhaps knew ...
... Earl of Orrery , in compliance with the opinion of Charles the Second , who had formed his tafte by the French theatre ; and Dryden , who wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to pleafe , and who perhaps knew ...
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... Earl of Orrery , had defended dramatick rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dia- logue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of ...
... Earl of Orrery , had defended dramatick rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dia- logue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of ...
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... Earl of Rochefter ; whom he acknow- ledges not only as the defender of his poetry , but the promoter of his fortune . Langbaine places this play in 1673. The Earl of Rochefter therefore was the famous Wilmot , whom yet tradition al ...
... Earl of Rochefter ; whom he acknow- ledges not only as the defender of his poetry , but the promoter of his fortune . Langbaine places this play in 1673. The Earl of Rochefter therefore was the famous Wilmot , whom yet tradition al ...
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... Earl of Mulgrave , afterwards Duke of Buckingham , himfelf , if not a poet , yet a writer of verfes , and a critick . In this addrefs Dryden gave the first hints of his in- tention to write an epick poem . He mentions his defign in ...
... Earl of Mulgrave , afterwards Duke of Buckingham , himfelf , if not a poet , yet a writer of verfes , and a critick . In this addrefs Dryden gave the first hints of his in- tention to write an epick poem . He mentions his defign in ...
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