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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 248
... dramatick , epick , or lyrick way . This promise was never formally performed ; but , with respect to the dramatick writers , he has given us in his prefaces , and in this post- script , something equivalent ; but his purpose being to ...
... dramatick , epick , or lyrick way . This promise was never formally performed ; but , with respect to the dramatick writers , he has given us in his prefaces , and in this post- script , something equivalent ; but his purpose being to ...
Page 257
... dramatick performances . It is too long to be all acted , and has many characters and many incidents ; and though it is not without sallies of frantick dignity , and more noise than meaning , yet as it makes approaches to the ...
... dramatick performances . It is too long to be all acted , and has many characters and many incidents ; and though it is not without sallies of frantick dignity , and more noise than meaning , yet as it makes approaches to the ...
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