The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... tragedy . It may be affirmed , without any encomiaftick fervour , that he brought to his poetick labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could fupply ; that he was the ...
... tragedy . It may be affirmed , without any encomiaftick fervour , that he brought to his poetick labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could fupply ; that he was the ...
Page 113
... tragedy , beginning with the first ten lines of Satan's addrefs to the Sun. These myfteries confift of allegorical perfons ; fuch as Justice , Mercy , Faith . Of the tragedy or mystery of Paradife Loft there are two plans : The Perfons ...
... tragedy , beginning with the first ten lines of Satan's addrefs to the Sun. These myfteries confift of allegorical perfons ; fuch as Justice , Mercy , Faith . Of the tragedy or mystery of Paradife Loft there are two plans : The Perfons ...
Page 124
... tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorised story of a farce feen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven . It has been already fhewn , that the first conception was a tragedy ...
... tragedy . Voltaire tells a wild and unauthorised story of a farce feen by Milton in Italy , which opened thus : Let the Rainbow be the Fiddlestick of the Fiddle of Heaven . It has been already fhewn , that the first conception was a tragedy ...
Page 136
... tragedy written in imitation of the Ancients , and never defigned by the author for the ftage . As thefe poems were published by another bookfeller , it has been asked , whether Simmons was difcouraged from receiving them by the flow ...
... tragedy written in imitation of the Ancients , and never defigned by the author for the ftage . As thefe poems were published by another bookfeller , it has been asked , whether Simmons was difcouraged from receiving them by the flow ...
Page 172
... tragedies , with their encumbrance of a chorus , to the exhibitions of the French and English stages ; and it is only ... tragedy are however many particular beau- ties , many just fentiments and ftriking lines ; but it wants that power ...
... tragedies , with their encumbrance of a chorus , to the exhibitions of the French and English stages ; and it is only ... tragedy are however many particular beau- ties , many just fentiments and ftriking lines ; but it wants that power ...
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