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Pagina 43
... present times , nor too distant from them . ' All for Love , or the World well loft , a tra- gedy founded upon the ftory of Antony and Cleopatra , he tells us , is the only play which be wrote for himself ; the reft were given to the ...
... present times , nor too distant from them . ' All for Love , or the World well loft , a tra- gedy founded upon the ftory of Antony and Cleopatra , he tells us , is the only play which be wrote for himself ; the reft were given to the ...
Pagina 100
... present not un- fuitable to the magnificence of that fplendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical fociety for the use of Alexander's Feaft . of In those days the economy of government was ...
... present not un- fuitable to the magnificence of that fplendid family ; and he quotes Moyle , as relating that forty pounds were paid by a musical fociety for the use of Alexander's Feaft . of In those days the economy of government was ...
Pagina 101
... present age , though in his own time , at least in the beginning of it , he was far from having it confined to himself . He put great confidence in the prognostications of judicial aftrology . In the Appendix to the Life of Congreve is ...
... present age , though in his own time , at least in the beginning of it , he was far from having it confined to himself . He put great confidence in the prognostications of judicial aftrology . In the Appendix to the Life of Congreve is ...
Pagina 109
... present purpose be served , not to en- tangle himself in his own fophiftries . But when all arts are exhausted , like other hunt- ed animals , he fometimes ftands at bay ; when he cannot difown the groffnefs of one of his plays , he ...
... present purpose be served , not to en- tangle himself in his own fophiftries . But when all arts are exhausted , like other hunt- ed animals , he fometimes ftands at bay ; when he cannot difown the groffnefs of one of his plays , he ...
Pagina 187
... present state . They are fometimes grateful to the reader , and fometimes con- venient to the poet . that Dryden was too fparing in their use . Fenton was of opinion liberal and Pope too The rhymes of Dryden are commonly just , and he ...
... present state . They are fometimes grateful to the reader , and fometimes con- venient to the poet . that Dryden was too fparing in their use . Fenton was of opinion liberal and Pope too The rhymes of Dryden are commonly just , and he ...
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