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... stage , but , in the confidence of fuccefs , had publifhed his play , with fculptures and a preface of defiance . Here was one offence added to another ; and for न for the last blaft of inflammation , it was acted 14 DRYDEN .
... stage , but , in the confidence of fuccefs , had publifhed his play , with fculptures and a preface of defiance . Here was one offence added to another ; and for न for the last blaft of inflammation , it was acted 14 DRYDEN .
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... stage what he bor- rows from others . Tyrannick Love , or the Virgin Martyr ( 1672 ) , was another tragedy in rhyme , con- fpicuous for many paffages of ftrength and elegance , and many of empty noise and ri- diculous turbulence . The ...
... stage what he bor- rows from others . Tyrannick Love , or the Virgin Martyr ( 1672 ) , was another tragedy in rhyme , con- fpicuous for many paffages of ftrength and elegance , and many of empty noise and ri- diculous turbulence . The ...
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... stage . What gave offence was in the printing , as the author fays , altered or omitted . Dryden confeffes that its indecency was objected to ; but Langbaine , who yet feldom favours him , imputes its expulfion to refentment , because ...
... stage . What gave offence was in the printing , as the author fays , altered or omitted . Dryden confeffes that its indecency was objected to ; but Langbaine , who yet feldom favours him , imputes its expulfion to refentment , because ...
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... stage , it is not poffible now to find any thing that might not have been written without fo long delay , or a confederacy fo numerous . To adjust the minute events of literary hiftory , is tedious and troublefome ; it re- quires indeed ...
... stage , it is not poffible now to find any thing that might not have been written without fo long delay , or a confederacy fo numerous . To adjust the minute events of literary hiftory , is tedious and troublefome ; it re- quires indeed ...
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Samuel Johnson . From this time he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , " to which , " fays he , my genius never much inclined me , " merely as the most profitable market for poetry . By writing tragedies in rhyme , he ...
Samuel Johnson . From this time he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , " to which , " fays he , my genius never much inclined me , " merely as the most profitable market for poetry . By writing tragedies in rhyme , he ...
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