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 8
... told by Prior , that the principal character is meant to represent the duke of Dorfet . This work feems to have given Addifon a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen ( 1668 ) , is a tragi - comedy . In ...
... told by Prior , that the principal character is meant to represent the duke of Dorfet . This work feems to have given Addifon a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . Secret Love , or the Maiden Queen ( 1668 ) , is a tragi - comedy . In ...
Pàgina 21
... told us in " the first act . " Because Elkanah's Similies are the most unlike " things to what they are compared in the world , I'll " venture to start a fimile in his Annus Mirabilis : " he gives this poetical defcription of the ship ...
... told us in " the first act . " Because Elkanah's Similies are the most unlike " things to what they are compared in the world , I'll " venture to start a fimile in his Annus Mirabilis : " he gives this poetical defcription of the ship ...
Pàgina 23
... told him piling his men upon his back " might do the feat , he would fearcely bear fuch a " weight , for the pleafure of the exploit ; but it is " a huff , and let Abdalla do it if he dare . " The people like a headlong torrent go ...
... told him piling his men upon his back " might do the feat , he would fearcely bear fuch a " weight , for the pleafure of the exploit ; but it is " a huff , and let Abdalla do it if he dare . " The people like a headlong torrent go ...
Pàgina 29
... told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . " The defign , " fays he , you know is great , the ftory English , and nei- " ther too near the prefent times , nor too diftant from them . " All for Love , or the World well loft ( 1678 ) ...
... told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . " The defign , " fays he , you know is great , the ftory English , and nei- " ther too near the prefent times , nor too diftant from them . " All for Love , or the World well loft ( 1678 ) ...
Pàgina 31
... told in the theatre ; upon which the company departed , and Arthur was exhibited no more . His laft drama was Love Triumphant , a tragi comedy . In his dedication to the Earl of Salisbury he mentions " the lowness of fortune to which he ...
... told in the theatre ; upon which the company departed , and Arthur was exhibited no more . His laft drama was Love Triumphant , a tragi comedy . In his dedication to the Earl of Salisbury he mentions " the lowness of fortune to which he ...
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