Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 137
... whole party of the royalists applauded it . Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author , who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation . In 1664 the second part appeared : the curiosity ...
... whole party of the royalists applauded it . Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author , who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation . In 1664 the second part appeared : the curiosity ...
Page 255
... whole fourth act , and the first half or somewhat more of the fifth . This was a play written professedly for the party of the duke of York , whose succession was then opposed . A parallel is intended between the Leaguers of France and ...
... whole fourth act , and the first half or somewhat more of the fifth . This was a play written professedly for the party of the duke of York , whose succession was then opposed . A parallel is intended between the Leaguers of France and ...
Page 334
... whole reasonably : yet , by the genius of poetry in writing , he has succeeded . ' Rapin attributes more to the dictio , that is , to the words and discourse of a tragedy , than Aristotle has done , who places them in the last rank of ...
... whole reasonably : yet , by the genius of poetry in writing , he has succeeded . ' Rapin attributes more to the dictio , that is , to the words and discourse of a tragedy , than Aristotle has done , who places them in the last rank of ...
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