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 2
... first to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the rea- fon , no fellowship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew He went off to Trinity College ...
... first to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the rea- fon , no fellowship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to guefs ; had he thought himself injured , he knew He went off to Trinity College ...
Pàgina 4
... first editions be eafily found , if even from them could be obtained the neceffary inform- ation . The time at which his first play was exhibited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards ...
... first editions be eafily found , if even from them could be obtained the neceffary inform- ation . The time at which his first play was exhibited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards ...
Pàgina 5
... first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was fo much difapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to the form in which it now ...
... first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was fo much difapproved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect ftate to the form in which it now ...
Pàgina 7
... Here appears a ftrange inconfiftency ; but Langbaine affords fome help , by relating that the answer to Howard was . not published in the first edition of the play , but B. 4 was was added when it was afterwards reprinted ; and as DRYDE N.
... Here appears a ftrange inconfiftency ; but Langbaine affords fome help , by relating that the answer to Howard was . not published in the first edition of the play , but B. 4 was was added when it was afterwards reprinted ; and as DRYDE N.
Pàgina 8
... First , from an hundred marks to one hundred pounds a year , and a tierce of wine ; a revenue in those days not inadequate to the conveniences of life . The fame year he published his Effay on Dra- matick Poetry , an elegant and ...
... First , from an hundred marks to one hundred pounds a year , and a tierce of wine ; a revenue in those days not inadequate to the conveniences of life . The fame year he published his Effay on Dra- matick Poetry , an elegant and ...
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