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Page 137
... play he made his essay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with sufficient cer- tainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the ...
... play he made his essay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with sufficient cer- tainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the ...
Page 152
... play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Cressida is a play altered from Shakespeare ; but so altered that even in Langbaine's opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a ...
... play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Cressida is a play altered from Shakespeare ; but so altered that even in Langbaine's opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a ...
Page 153
... play ; and he happened , says Dryden , to claim the promise just upon the finishing of a poem , when I would have been glad of a little respite . - Two thirds of it belonged to him ; and to me only the first scene of the play , the ...
... play ; and he happened , says Dryden , to claim the promise just upon the finishing of a poem , when I would have been glad of a little respite . - Two thirds of it belonged to him ; and to me only the first scene of the play , the ...
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