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Page 84
... comedy called ' Love's Riddle , ' though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it ...
... comedy called ' Love's Riddle , ' though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it ...
Page 85
... comedy , which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have con- sidered as injurious to his ...
... comedy , which Cowley says was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the scholars . That this comedy was printed during his absence from his country , he appears to have con- sidered as injurious to his ...
Page 145
... comedy , is dedicated to the illustrious duke of Newcastle , whom he courts by adding to his praises those of his lady , not only as a lover but a partner of his studies . It is unpleasing to think how many names , once celebrated , are ...
... comedy , is dedicated to the illustrious duke of Newcastle , whom he courts by adding to his praises those of his lady , not only as a lover but a partner of his studies . It is unpleasing to think how many names , once celebrated , are ...
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Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote