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 6
... 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 that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme ...
... 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 that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme ...
Pàgina 7
... formed on any other . As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts , fo " much more to exprefs thofe thoughts with clo- " cution . " It is written in quatrains , or heroic ftanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had ...
... formed on any other . As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts , fo " much more to exprefs thofe thoughts with clo- " cution . " It is written in quatrains , or heroic ftanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had ...
Pàgina 27
... formed , I have not found * . The State of Innocence and Fall of Man ( 1675 ) is termed by him an opera : it is rather a tragedy in heroick rhyme , but of which the perfonages are fuch as cannot decently be exhibited on the ftage . Some ...
... formed , I have not found * . The State of Innocence and Fall of Man ( 1675 ) is termed by him an opera : it is rather a tragedy in heroick rhyme , but of which the perfonages are fuch as cannot decently be exhibited on the ftage . Some ...
Pàgina 30
... formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of So- phocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed the first and third acts . Don Sebaftian ( 1690 ) , is commonly esteemed . either the first or ...
... formed by Dryden and Lee , in conjunction , from the works of So- phocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed the first and third acts . Don Sebaftian ( 1690 ) , is commonly esteemed . either the first or ...
Pàgina 48
... formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He confidered the epick as necef- farily including fome kind of fupernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of conteft between the guardian angels ...
... formed to write an epick poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He confidered the epick as necef- farily including fome kind of fupernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of conteft between the guardian angels ...
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