The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volume 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 - English poetry |
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... success - His next Play prohibited -His Fables - Burial , and Monument in Westminster Abbey - Works and Character 63 GEORGE GRANVILLE , LORD LANSDOWN . - 1665–1734–5 . Birth - Educated at Cambridge - Is commended by Waller - His ...
... success - His next Play prohibited -His Fables - Burial , and Monument in Westminster Abbey - Works and Character 63 GEORGE GRANVILLE , LORD LANSDOWN . - 1665–1734–5 . Birth - Educated at Cambridge - Is commended by Waller - His ...
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... success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession , by which something might be gotten ; and about the time of the Revolution sent him , at the age of sixteen , " to study law in the Middle Temple , where he lived for ...
... success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession , by which something might be gotten ; and about the time of the Revolution sent him , at the age of sixteen , " to study law in the Middle Temple , where he lived for ...
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... success of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the stage . Southerne used to relate of one comedy , probably of this , that when Congreve read it to the players , he pronounced it so wretchedly , that they had ...
... success of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the stage . Southerne used to relate of one comedy , probably of this , that when Congreve read it to the players , he pronounced it so wretchedly , that they had ...
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... success , and impatient of censure , assumed an air of confidence and security . His chief arti- fice of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words : he is very angry , and , hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons ...
... success , and impatient of censure , assumed an air of confidence and security . His chief arti- fice of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words : he is very angry , and , hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons ...
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... success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it [ 1696 ] by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than the work which he condemns . To this censure may be opposed the approbation of Locke and the admiration of ...
... success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it [ 1696 ] by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than the work which he condemns . To this censure may be opposed the approbation of Locke and the admiration of ...
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