The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volume 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 - English poetry |
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... play , and high poetical reputation - His government situ- ations - Death , and burial in Westminster Abbey - Works and character 15 SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE . - 1658 ? -1729 . Born at Corsham , in Wiltshire - Educated at Westminster and ...
... play , and high poetical reputation - His government situ- ations - Death , and burial in Westminster Abbey - Works and character 15 SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE . - 1658 ? -1729 . Born at Corsham , in Wiltshire - Educated at Westminster and ...
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... play , and high poetical reputation - His government situ- ations - Death , and burial in Westminster Abbey - Works and character . : WILLIAM CONGREVE descended from a family in Staffordshire , of so great antiquity that it claims a ...
... play , and high poetical reputation - His government situ- ations - Death , and burial in Westminster Abbey - Works and character . : WILLIAM CONGREVE descended from a family in Staffordshire , of so great antiquity that it claims a ...
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... play ; but they found it deficient in some things requisite to the success of its exhibition , and by their greater ... plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it pro- cured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately ...
... play ; but they found it deficient in some things requisite to the success of its exhibition , and by their greater ... plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it pro- cured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately ...
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... play was acted : but I neither altered them , nor do I alter my opinion of the play . - DRYDEN to Walsh . ( Bell's ' Dryden , ' i . 76. ) 8 The Mourning Muse of Alexis , a Pastoral lamenting the Death of our late gracious Queen Mary ...
... play was acted : but I neither altered them , nor do I alter my opinion of the play . - DRYDEN to Walsh . ( Bell's ' Dryden , ' i . 76. ) 8 The Mourning Muse of Alexis , a Pastoral lamenting the Death of our late gracious Queen Mary ...
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... play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sen- timent ; the plot is busy and intricate , and the events take hold on the attention ; but , except a ...
... play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sen- timent ; the plot is busy and intricate , and the events take hold on the attention ; but , except a ...
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