Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty: A TragedyW. Reeve, 1747 - 320 páginas |
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... College is uncertain . He became af- terwards a Student of the Inner- Temple ; but we do not find that he made any Proficiency in the Law : Perhaps his Devotion to the Mufes prevented his apply . ing himself to fo dry a Study . He died ...
... College is uncertain . He became af- terwards a Student of the Inner- Temple ; but we do not find that he made any Proficiency in the Law : Perhaps his Devotion to the Mufes prevented his apply . ing himself to fo dry a Study . He died ...
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... College at Oxford , and afterwards travelled . While he was at Utrecht in the United Provinces , in the Year 1618 , he wrote one Play , called HANS BEER - POT , his invi- fible Comedy of See me , and fee me not . Acted , as the Title ...
... College at Oxford , and afterwards travelled . While he was at Utrecht in the United Provinces , in the Year 1618 , he wrote one Play , called HANS BEER - POT , his invi- fible Comedy of See me , and fee me not . Acted , as the Title ...
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... College in Oxford ; of which University he was chofen Proctor in the Year 1643 , but died foon after . He was eminent for his Learning and Loyalty , was an excellent Orator , and good Poet , extremely polite in his Behaviour , and ...
... College in Oxford ; of which University he was chofen Proctor in the Year 1643 , but died foon after . He was eminent for his Learning and Loyalty , was an excellent Orator , and good Poet , extremely polite in his Behaviour , and ...
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... College , Oxon , 1651. Dr. Busby , the famous Master of Westminster- School , then a Student , acted a principal Part in it ; and he and his Fellow - Students per- formed their Parts fo well , that they were thought to exceed the Actors ...
... College , Oxon , 1651. Dr. Busby , the famous Master of Westminster- School , then a Student , acted a principal Part in it ; and he and his Fellow - Students per- formed their Parts fo well , that they were thought to exceed the Actors ...
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... College , Cambridge : But he commenced Poet , at the firft Place , and wrote Verses in the 10th Year of his Age ; this early Inclination to Poetry , he tells us himself , was owing to his meeting with Spenfer's Fairy Queen by Chance ...
... College , Cambridge : But he commenced Poet , at the firft Place , and wrote Verses in the 10th Year of his Age ; this early Inclination to Poetry , he tells us himself , was owing to his meeting with Spenfer's Fairy Queen by Chance ...
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Página 140 - He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Página 142 - Mr. Jonson, who was at that time altogether unknown to the world, had offered one of his plays to the players, in order to have it acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put, after having turned it carelessly and superciliously over, were just upon returning it to him with an ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company ; when...
Página 147 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 142 - His Acquaintance with Ben Johnson began with a remarkable piece of Humanity and good Nature; Mr Johnson, who was at that Time altogether unknown to the World, had offer'd one of his Plays to the Players, in order to have it...
Página 140 - He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Página 140 - Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings, like those of other authors, among their least perfect writings ; art had so little, and nature so large a share in what he did, that, for aught I know...
Página 222 - I will say but one word more in general of his writings, which is, that what he has done in any one species, or distinct kind, would have been sufficient to have acquired him a great name. If he had written nothing but his prefaces, or nothing but his songs or his prologues, each of them would have entitled him to the preference and distinction of excelling in his kind.
Página 139 - ... he was his eldest son, he could give him no better education than his own employment.
Página 221 - Indeed, it is to be regretted, that he was rather blameable in the other extreme; for, by that means, he was personally less known, and, consequently, his character might become liable both to misapprehensions and misrepresentations.
Página 221 - ... last, even to near seventy years of age, improving even in fire and imagination, as well as in judgment; witness his Ode on St Cecilia's Day, and his Fables, his latest performances.