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 1
... hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of thefe particu- lars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have fecured him from that poverty which feems always to have oppreffed him ; or ...
... hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of thefe particu- lars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have fecured him from that poverty which feems always to have oppreffed him ; or ...
Pàgina 8
... 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 inftructive dialogue ...
... 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 inftructive dialogue ...
Pàgina 16
... hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of Beau- mont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonfon only made them for himfelf . His criticifms upon tra- gedy , comedy , and farce , are judicious and profound . He endeavours to defend the ...
... hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of Beau- mont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonfon only made them for himfelf . His criticifms upon tra- gedy , comedy , and farce , are judicious and profound . He endeavours to defend the ...
Pàgina 28
... hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tranfcribed . An author has a right to print his own works , and need not feek an apology in falfehood ; but he that could bear to write the dedication felt no pain in writing ...
... hundred copies of four- teen hundred lines were likely to be tranfcribed . An author has a right to print his own works , and need not feek an apology in falfehood ; but he that could bear to write the dedication felt no pain in writing ...
Pàgina 32
... hundred pounds , by the acumulated gain of the third night , the dedication , and the copy . Almoft every piece had a dedication , written with fuch elegance and luxuriance of praife , as neither haughtiness nor avarice could be ...
... hundred pounds , by the acumulated gain of the third night , the dedication , and the copy . Almoft every piece had a dedication , written with fuch elegance and luxuriance of praife , as neither haughtiness nor avarice could be ...
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