The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Volumen2T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... play he wrote for himself : the rest were given to the people . " It is ( says Dr. Johnson ) by universal consent accounted the work in which he has admitted the fewest improprieties of style or character . " 2 Of the rise and character ...
... play he wrote for himself : the rest were given to the people . " It is ( says Dr. Johnson ) by universal consent accounted the work in which he has admitted the fewest improprieties of style or character . " 2 Of the rise and character ...
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... play , entitled CLEO- PATRA , which was printed in 1594 , but never acted . ANTONIUS , or , the Tragedie of Mark Antony , done from the French , by Mary , Countess of Pembroke , ( sister of Sir Philip Sydney , ) was printed in 4to . in ...
... play , entitled CLEO- PATRA , which was printed in 1594 , but never acted . ANTONIUS , or , the Tragedie of Mark Antony , done from the French , by Mary , Countess of Pembroke , ( sister of Sir Philip Sydney , ) was printed in 4to . in ...
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... play is regular enough , as to the inferior parts of it ; and the unities of time , place , and action , more exactly observed , than perhaps the English theatre requires . Particularly , the action is so much one , that it is the only ...
... play is regular enough , as to the inferior parts of it ; and the unities of time , place , and action , more exactly observed , than perhaps the English theatre requires . Particularly , the action is so much one , that it is the only ...
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... play , though he had been ten years a making it . In the mean time , the true poets were they who made the best markets , for they had wit enough to yield the prize with a good grace , and not contend with him who had thirty legions ...
... play , though he had been ten years a making it . In the mean time , the true poets were they who made the best markets , for they had wit enough to yield the prize with a good grace , and not contend with him who had thirty legions ...
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... play of his failed , but was cold to him , if it met with success . He some- times used to own that Crown had some genius , but then he always added , that his father and Crown's mother were very well acquainted . Spence's ANECDOTES ...
... play of his failed , but was cold to him , if it met with success . He some- times used to own that Crown had some genius , but then he always added , that his father and Crown's mother were very well acquainted . Spence's ANECDOTES ...
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