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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... publick . His 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 ...
... publick . His 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 ...
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... publick with dramatick wonders , to exhibit in its highest elevation a theatrical meteor of incredi- ble love and impoffible valour , and to leave no room for a wilder flight to the extravagance of pofterity . All the rays of romantick ...
... publick with dramatick wonders , to exhibit in its highest elevation a theatrical meteor of incredi- ble love and impoffible valour , and to leave no room for a wilder flight to the extravagance of pofterity . All the rays of romantick ...
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... publick . It was Dryden's 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 ...
... publick . It was Dryden's 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 ...
Pàgina 33
... publick judgement must have been much improved ; and Swift , who con- verfed with Dryden , relates that he regretted the fuccefs of his own inftructions , and found his readers made fuddenly too fkilful to be easily fa tisfied . His ...
... publick judgement must have been much improved ; and Swift , who con- verfed with Dryden , relates that he regretted the fuccefs of his own inftructions , and found his readers made fuddenly too fkilful to be easily fa tisfied . His ...
Pàgina 35
... The earl of Rochefter , to fupprefs the reputa- tion of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to perfuade the publick that its 6 . аррго- approbation had been to that time mifplaced . Settle was DRY DE N. 35.
... The earl of Rochefter , to fupprefs the reputa- tion of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to perfuade the publick that its 6 . аррго- approbation had been to that time mifplaced . Settle was DRY DE N. 35.
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