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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... 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 that by his dexterity of verfification he ...
... 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 that by his dexterity of verfification he ...
Pàgina 7
... opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dia- logue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindi- cation ; and Dryden , in a preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the ...
... opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dia- logue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindi- cation ; and Dryden , in a preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the ...
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... opinion ; but that , in those parts where fancy predominates , felf - love may eafily deceive . He might have obferved , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to pleafe . Sir Martin ...
... opinion ; but that , in those parts where fancy predominates , felf - love may eafily deceive . He might have obferved , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to pleafe . Sir Martin ...
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... 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 . Amboyna ...
... 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 . Amboyna ...
Pàgina 26
... opinion , at leaft for fome time , and he maintains it in the dedication of this play , that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes , and that it is neceffary to mi- tigate by alleviations of merriment the ...
... opinion , at leaft for fome time , and he maintains it in the dedication of this play , that the drama required an alternation of comick and tragick scenes , and that it is neceffary to mi- tigate by alleviations of merriment the ...
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