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... poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite ... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player have been differently employed ...
... poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite ... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player have been differently employed ...
Page 236
... poet has made of the pustules first rosebuds , and then gems ; at last exalts them into stars ; and says , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corps might seem a constellation . At the university he does not appear to have ...
... poet has made of the pustules first rosebuds , and then gems ; at last exalts them into stars ; and says , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whose corps might seem a constellation . At the university he does not appear to have ...
Page 243
... poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of anclotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been ...
... poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of anclotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been ...
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