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 10
... reader a particular remark . Having gone through the first act , he fays , " To conclude this act with the moft rumbling piece " of nonfenfe fpoken yet , " " To flattering lightning our feign'd fmiles conform , " Which back'd with ...
... reader a particular remark . Having gone through the first act , he fays , " To conclude this act with the moft rumbling piece " of nonfenfe fpoken yet , " " To flattering lightning our feign'd fmiles conform , " Which back'd with ...
Pàgina 17
... reader know , that it was contrived and written in feven weeks . Want of time was often his excuse , or perhaps fhortness of time was his private boast in the form of an apology . It was written before the Conqueft of Gra- nada , but ...
... reader know , that it was contrived and written in feven weeks . Want of time was often his excuse , or perhaps fhortness of time was his private boast in the form of an apology . It was written before the Conqueft of Gra- nada , but ...
Pàgina 32
... readers , that he must have improved his fortune ; at least that fuch diligence with fuch abilities muft have fet penury at defi- ance . But in Dryden's time the drama was very far from that univerfal approbation which it has now ...
... readers , that he must have improved his fortune ; at least that fuch diligence with fuch abilities muft have fet penury at defi- ance . But in Dryden's time the drama was very far from that univerfal approbation which it has now ...
Pàgina 33
... readers made fuddenly too fkilful to be easily fa tisfied . His prologues had fuch reputation , that for fome time a play was confidered as lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not intro- duce it . The price of a ...
... readers made fuddenly too fkilful to be easily fa tisfied . His prologues had fuch reputation , that for fome time a play was confidered as lefs likely to be well received , if fome of his verfes did not intro- duce it . The price of a ...
Pàgina 38
... and thinks that curiofity to decypher , the names procured readers . to the poem . There is no need to enquire why thofe verfes were read , which , to all the attractions of of wit , elegance , and harmony , added the 38 DRYDEN .
... and thinks that curiofity to decypher , the names procured readers . to the poem . There is no need to enquire why thofe verfes were read , which , to all the attractions of of wit , elegance , and harmony , added the 38 DRYDEN .
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