Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... play - house , for the prop of an age . Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played thirty ...
... play - house , for the prop of an age . Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played thirty ...
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... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , ' whom , ' says he , ' I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those ...
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , ' whom , ' says he , ' I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those ...
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... play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Cressida is a play altered from Shakespeare ; but so altered that even in Langbaine's opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a ...
... play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Cressida is a play altered from Shakespeare ; but so altered that even in Langbaine's opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a ...
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