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 5
... wrote are not diftinguished . The In an Emperor was published in 1667. It is a tragedy in rhyme , intended for a fequel to Howard's Indian Queen . Of this connection no- tice was given to the audience by printed bills , diftributed at ...
... wrote are not diftinguished . The In an Emperor was published in 1667. It is a tragedy in rhyme , intended for a fequel to Howard's Indian Queen . Of this connection no- tice was given to the audience by printed bills , diftributed at ...
Pàgina 6
... wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to pleafe , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very readily adopted his matter's ...
... wrote , and made no difficulty of declaring that he wrote only to pleafe , and who perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very readily adopted his matter's ...
Pàgina 9
... ladies . Dryden could not now reprefs thofe emotions , which he called indignation , and others jealoufy ; but wrote upon the play and the dedication fuch B 5 criticifm criticifm as malignant impatience could pour out in hafte . DRYDE N. 9.
... ladies . Dryden could not now reprefs thofe emotions , which he called indignation , and others jealoufy ; but wrote upon the play and the dedication fuch B 5 criticifm criticifm as malignant impatience could pour out in hafte . DRYDE N. 9.
Pàgina 19
... wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes his reprifals upon his enemy . To fay that his anfwer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expofe Dryden's method of analyfing his ...
... wrote a vindication of his own lines ; and , if he is forced to yield any thing , makes his reprifals upon his enemy . To fay that his anfwer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expofe Dryden's method of analyfing his ...
Pàgina 29
... wrote for himself , " the reft were given to the people . It is by univerfal confent accounted the work in which he has admitted the feweft impro- prieties of ftyle or character ; but it has one fault equal to many , though rather moral ...
... wrote for himself , " the reft were given to the people . It is by univerfal confent accounted the work in which he has admitted the feweft impro- prieties of ftyle or character ; but it has one fault equal to many , though rather moral ...
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