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
... writing and publifhing is not always the fame ; nor can the first editions be eafily found , if even from them could ... writer for the ftage ; compelled undoubtedly by neceflity , for he appears never to have loved that exercife of his ...
... writing and publifhing is not always the fame ; nor can the first editions be eafily found , if even from them could ... writer for the ftage ; compelled undoubtedly by neceflity , for he appears never to have loved that exercife of his ...
Pàgina 5
... writer and as a statesman In this 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 ...
... writer and as a statesman In this 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 ...
Pàgina 6
... writing to a poet , he has interfperfed many critical obfer- vations , of which fome are common , and fome perhaps ventured without much confideration . He began , even now , to exercife the domination of confcious genius , by ...
... writing to a poet , he has interfperfed many critical obfer- vations , of which fome are common , and fome perhaps ventured without much confideration . He began , even now , to exercife the domination of confcious genius , by ...
Pàgina 8
... writing both for the Thea- tre , were naturally rivals . He was now fo much diftinguished , that in 1668 he fucceeded Sir William Davenant as post- laureat . The falary of the laureat had been raised in favour of Jonfon , by Charles the ...
... writing both for the Thea- tre , were naturally rivals . He was now fo much diftinguished , that in 1668 he fucceeded Sir William Davenant as post- laureat . The falary of the laureat had been raised in favour of Jonfon , by Charles the ...
Pàgina 10
... writing nonfenfe for them , " Fools they will be in fpite of him . His King , " his two Empreffes , his villain , and his fub - vil- " lain , nay his hero , have all a certain natural " caft of the father - their folly was born and bred ...
... writing nonfenfe for them , " Fools they will be in fpite of him . His King , " his two Empreffes , his villain , and his fub - vil- " lain , nay his hero , have all a certain natural " caft of the father - their folly was born and bred ...
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