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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... 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 thunder do but gild a ...
... 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 thunder do but gild a ...
Pàgina 16
... remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shakespeare's plots , he says , are in 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 ...
... remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shakespeare's plots , he says , are in 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 ...
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... remarks . But Het honeft credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
... remarks . But Het honeft credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to ...
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... remark : " I believe our learned author takes a sphere for " a country ; the fphere of Morocco , as if Mo- rocco were the globe of earth and water ; but a globe is no fphere neither , by his leave , " & c . " So fphire muft not be fenfe ...
... remark : " I believe our learned author takes a sphere for " a country ; the fphere of Morocco , as if Mo- rocco were the globe of earth and water ; but a globe is no fphere neither , by his leave , " & c . " So fphire muft not be fenfe ...
Pàgina 43
... remarks upon it , to have written an Answer ; upon which Burnet makes the following obfervation : 66 " I have been informed from England , that a gentleman , who is famous both for poetry and feveral other things , had fpent three ...
... remarks upon it , to have written an Answer ; upon which Burnet makes the following obfervation : 66 " I have been informed from England , that a gentleman , who is famous both for poetry and feveral other things , had fpent three ...
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