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 4
... play was exhibited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and revived ; but fince the plays are faid to be printed in the or- der in which they were written , from the dates of fome ...
... play was exhibited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and revived ; but fince the plays are faid to be printed in the or- der in which they were written , from the dates of fome ...
Pàgina 5
... play he made his effay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with fufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the ...
... play he made his effay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with fufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the ...
Pàgina 6
... play is the defcription of Night , which Rymer has made famous by preferring it to those of all other poets . The practice of making tragedies in rhyme was introduced foon after the Reftoration , as it feems by the Earl of Orrery , in ...
... play is the defcription of Night , which Rymer has made famous by preferring it to those of all other poets . The practice of making tragedies in rhyme was introduced foon after the Reftoration , as it feems by the Earl of Orrery , in ...
Pàgina 7
... play is dated the year in which the Annus Mirabilis was published . 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 ...
... play is dated the year in which the Annus Mirabilis was published . 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 ...
Pàgina 9
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Dave- nant , " whom , " fays he , " I found of fo quick a " fancy , that nothing was propofed to him in " which he could not fuddenly produce a thought " extremely pleasant and furprifing ; and ...
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Dave- nant , " whom , " fays he , " I found of fo quick a " fancy , that nothing was propofed to him in " which he could not fuddenly produce a thought " extremely pleasant and furprifing ; and ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
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