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Pagina 23
With this play was opened the New Theatre ; under the direction of Betterton , the
tragedian ; where he exhibited , two years afterwards , ( 1687 ) " The Mourning
Bride , " a tragedy , so written as to shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind
of ...
With this play was opened the New Theatre ; under the direction of Betterton , the
tragedian ; where he exhibited , two years afterwards , ( 1687 ) " The Mourning
Bride , " a tragedy , so written as to shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind
of ...
Pagina 27
CONGREVE has merit of the highest kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed
neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I
cannot speak distinctly , for since I inspected them many years have passed ; but
...
CONGREVE has merit of the highest kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed
neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I
cannot speak distinctly , for since I inspected them many years have passed ; but
...
Pagina 38
Of the last kind , this age has seen a most audacious example in the book entitled
" A Tale of a Tub . ' Had this writing been published in a pagan or popish nation ,
who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to the established religion of ...
Of the last kind , this age has seen a most audacious example in the book entitled
" A Tale of a Tub . ' Had this writing been published in a pagan or popish nation ,
who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to the established religion of ...
Pagina 41
Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character ,
corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore , being despised as a poet , was in
time neglected as a physician ; his practice , which was once invidiously great ,
forsook ...
Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character ,
corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore , being despised as a poet , was in
time neglected as a physician ; his practice , which was once invidiously great ,
forsook ...
Pagina 42
He was not only a poet and a physician , but produced likewise a work of a
different kind , " A true and impartial History of the Conspiracy against King
William , of glorious Memory , in the Year 1695 . ” . ° This I have never seen , but
suppose it ...
He was not only a poet and a physician , but produced likewise a work of a
different kind , " A true and impartial History of the Conspiracy against King
William , of glorious Memory , in the Year 1695 . ” . ° This I have never seen , but
suppose it ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2 Volume 419 van Collection of British and American authors Collection of British authors ; no. 418-419 Volume 418 van Collection of British authors The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Uitgever | B. Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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