Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 131
... dramatick powers . Had this poem been written not by Milton , but by some imitator , it would have claimed and received universal praise . If Paradise Regained has been too much depreciated , Sampson Agonistes has in requital been too ...
... dramatick powers . Had this poem been written not by Milton , but by some imitator , it would have claimed and received universal praise . If Paradise Regained has been too much depreciated , Sampson Agonistes has in requital been too ...
Page 240
... dramatick rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had censured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the ...
... dramatick rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had censured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the ...
Page 287
... Dramatick Poetry was the first regular and valuable treatise on the art of writing . He who , having formed his opinions in the present age of English literature , turns back to peruse this dialogue , will not perhaps find much increase ...
... Dramatick Poetry was the first regular and valuable treatise on the art of writing . He who , having formed his opinions in the present age of English literature , turns back to peruse this dialogue , will not perhaps find much increase ...
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