The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, Volumen21781 |
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... scenes are , for the most part , delightful ; they exhi- bit a kind of illuftrious depravity , and ma- jestick madness : fuch as , if it is fometimes defpifed , is often reverenced , and in which the ridiculous is mingled with the afto ...
... scenes are , for the most part , delightful ; they exhi- bit a kind of illuftrious depravity , and ma- jestick madness : fuch as , if it is fometimes defpifed , is often reverenced , and in which the ridiculous is mingled with the afto ...
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... scene of the play , the whole fourth act , and the first half or fomewhat more of the fifth . - This was a play written profeffedly for the party of the duke of York , whofe fucceffion was then oppofed . A parallel is intended between ...
... scene of the play , the whole fourth act , and the first half or fomewhat more of the fifth . - This was a play written profeffedly for the party of the duke of York , whofe fucceffion was then oppofed . A parallel is intended between ...
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... scenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions ; for the heat of his imagination raised it in a month . This compofition is addreffed to the prin- cefs of Modena , then dutchess of York , in a strain of flattery ...
... scenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions ; for the heat of his imagination raised it in a month . This compofition is addreffed to the prin- cefs of Modena , then dutchess of York , in a strain of flattery ...
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... scenes which the writer intended for comick ; but which , I suppose , that age did not much commend , and this would not endure . There are , however , paffages of excellence univerfally acknowledged ; the difpute and the reconci ...
... scenes which the writer intended for comick ; but which , I suppose , that age did not much commend , and this would not endure . There are , however , paffages of excellence univerfally acknowledged ; the difpute and the reconci ...
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... scenes , and open a vast extent to the imagination ; but , as Boileau observes , and Boileau will be feldom found mistaken , with this incurable defect , that in a contest between heaven and hell we know at the be- ginning which is to ...
... scenes , and open a vast extent to the imagination ; but , as Boileau observes , and Boileau will be feldom found mistaken , with this incurable defect , that in a contest between heaven and hell we know at the be- ginning which is to ...
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