The lives of the English poets: in 2 vol, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1858 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge 8 COWLEY .
... of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge 8 COWLEY .
Pagina 9
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
Pagina 30
... plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain and inconstancy , produce no correspondence of emotion . His poetical account of the virtues of plants and colours of ...
... plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain and inconstancy , produce no correspondence of emotion . His poetical account of the virtues of plants and colours of ...
Pagina 31
... plays of words and fancy unsuit- able to the original , as The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without im- proving them ...
... plays of words and fancy unsuit- able to the original , as The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without im- proving them ...
Pagina 59
... plays , " writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trin- calos , buffoons , and bawds , prostituting the shame of that ministry which they had , or were near having , to the eyes of the ...
... plays , " writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trin- calos , buffoons , and bawds , prostituting the shame of that ministry which they had , or were near having , to the eyes of the ...
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