The Lives of the English Poets, Volumen2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 páginas |
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... Cibber , it was rejected by him , with the additional insolence of advising Fenton to engage himself in some employment of honest labour , by which he might obtain that support which he could never hope from his poetry . The play was ...
... Cibber , it was rejected by him , with the additional insolence of advising Fenton to engage himself in some employment of honest labour , by which he might obtain that support which he could never hope from his poetry . The play was ...
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... Cibber was confuted , though , perhaps , not shamed , by general applause . Fenton's profits are said to have amounted to near a thousand pounds , with which he discharged a debt contracted by his attendance at court . Fenton seems to ...
... Cibber was confuted , though , perhaps , not shamed , by general applause . Fenton's profits are said to have amounted to near a thousand pounds , with which he discharged a debt contracted by his attendance at court . Fenton seems to ...
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... Cibber and his brethren at Drury Lane , and rejected ; it being then carried to Rich , had the effect , as was ludicrously said , of making Gay rich , and Rich gay . Of this lucky piece , as the reader cannot but wish to know the ...
... Cibber and his brethren at Drury Lane , and rejected ; it being then carried to Rich , had the effect , as was ludicrously said , of making Gay rich , and Rich gay . Of this lucky piece , as the reader cannot but wish to know the ...
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... Cibber's Lives of the Poets ; " of which I take this opportunity to testify , that it was not written , nor , I believe , ever seen , by either of the Cibbers : but was the work of Robert Shiels , a native of Scotland , a man of very ...
... Cibber's Lives of the Poets ; " of which I take this opportunity to testify , that it was not written , nor , I believe , ever seen , by either of the Cibbers : but was the work of Robert Shiels , a native of Scotland , a man of very ...
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... Cibber , which he always considered as the disgrace of his performance . He had indeed in Mr. Hill another critic of a very different . class , from whose friendship he received great assistance on many occasions , and whom he never ...
... Cibber , which he always considered as the disgrace of his performance . He had indeed in Mr. Hill another critic of a very different . class , from whose friendship he received great assistance on many occasions , and whom he never ...
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