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... play - house , for the prop of an age . Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played thirty ...
... play - house , for the prop of an age . Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played thirty ...
Page 241
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , ' whom , says he , ' I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those ...
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , ' whom , says he , ' I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those ...
Page 413
... play without appearing to revenge himself . He therefore published A Narrative of the madness of John Dennis ; a performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing the ...
... play without appearing to revenge himself . He therefore published A Narrative of the madness of John Dennis ; a performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing the ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of Oxford world's classics Issues 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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