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Page 149
... English Cowley . Thus in a course of drunken gaiety , and gross sensu- ality , with intervals of study perhaps yet more criminal , with an avowed contempt of all decency and order , a total disregard to every moral , and a resolute ...
... English Cowley . Thus in a course of drunken gaiety , and gross sensu- ality , with intervals of study perhaps yet more criminal , with an avowed contempt of all decency and order , a total disregard to every moral , and a resolute ...
Page 272
... English prose . The preface , which he boasts to have written in twelve mornings , exhibits a parallel of poetry and painting , with a miscellaneous collection of critical remarks , such as cost a mind stored like his no labour to ...
... English prose . The preface , which he boasts to have written in twelve mornings , exhibits a parallel of poetry and painting , with a miscellaneous collection of critical remarks , such as cost a mind stored like his no labour to ...
Page 339
... English have not answered this end of tragedy , as well as the ancients , or perhaps better . ' And here Mr. Rymer's objections against these plays are to be impartially weighed , that we may see whether they are of weight enough to ...
... English have not answered this end of tragedy , as well as the ancients , or perhaps better . ' And here Mr. Rymer's objections against these plays are to be impartially weighed , that we may see whether they are of weight enough to ...
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