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... rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with fufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the Indian Queen , a tragedy in rhyme . The ...
... rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with fufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the Indian Queen , a tragedy in rhyme . The ...
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... rhyme than without it , very readily adopted his master's preference . He therefore made rhyming tragedies , till , by the prevalence of manifest propriety , he feems to have grown ashamed of making them any longer . To this play is ...
... rhyme than without it , very readily adopted his master's preference . He therefore made rhyming tragedies , till , by the prevalence of manifest propriety , he feems to have grown ashamed of making them any longer . To this play is ...
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... rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ...
... rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ...
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... rhyme by Elkanah Settle ; which was fo much applauded , as to make him think his fupremacy of reputation in some danger . Settle had not only been profpe- rous on the stage , but , in the confidence of fuccefs , had publifhed his play ...
... rhyme by Elkanah Settle ; which was fo much applauded , as to make him think his fupremacy of reputation in some danger . Settle had not only been profpe- rous on the stage , but , in the confidence of fuccefs , had publifhed his play ...
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... rhyme incorrigibly lewd , and his numbers perpe- " tually harsh and ill - founding . The little " talent which he has , is fancy . He fome- " times labours with a thought ; but , with " the pudder he makes to bring it into the " world ...
... rhyme incorrigibly lewd , and his numbers perpe- " tually harsh and ill - founding . The little " talent which he has , is fancy . He fome- " times labours with a thought ; but , with " the pudder he makes to bring it into the " world ...
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