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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Page 166
... whole people , and the audience , consisting nearly of the same persons , could be drawn together only by variety . The Orphan was exhibited in 1680. This is one of the few plays that keep possession of the stage , and has pleased for ...
... whole people , and the audience , consisting nearly of the same persons , could be drawn together only by variety . The Orphan was exhibited in 1680. This is one of the few plays that keep possession of the stage , and has pleased for ...
Page 255
... whole fourth act , and the first half or somewhat more of the fifth . This was a play written professedly for the party of the duke of York , whose succession was then opposed . A parallel is intended between the Leaguers of France and ...
... whole fourth act , and the first half or somewhat more of the fifth . This was a play written professedly for the party of the duke of York , whose succession was then opposed . A parallel is intended between the Leaguers of France and ...
Page 334
... whole reasonably : yet , by the genius of poetry in writing , he has succeeded . ' Rapin attributes more to the dictio , that is , to the words and discourse of a tragedy , than Aristotle has done , who places them in the last rank of ...
... whole reasonably : yet , by the genius of poetry in writing , he has succeeded . ' Rapin attributes more to the dictio , that is , to the words and discourse of a tragedy , than Aristotle has done , who places them in the last rank of ...
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