Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... stage , than either Rome or Athens ; and if she excels the Greek and Latin Phædra , I need not say she surpasses the French one , though embellished with whatever regular beauties and moving softness Racine himself could give her . ' No ...
... stage , than either Rome or Athens ; and if she excels the Greek and Latin Phædra , I need not say she surpasses the French one , though embellished with whatever regular beauties and moving softness Racine himself could give her . ' No ...
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... stage under better regulations . ' Ante , DRYDEN , 28. Hume says of eloquence that being merely cal- culated for the public and for men of the world , it cannot , with any pre- tence of reason , appeal from the people to more refined ...
... stage under better regulations . ' Ante , DRYDEN , 28. Hume says of eloquence that being merely cal- culated for the public and for men of the world , it cannot , with any pre- tence of reason , appeal from the people to more refined ...
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... Stage , with the 54 story of Lady Jane Grey . It is not unlikely that his experience of the inefficacy and incredibility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from English History , at no great distance from our ...
... Stage , with the 54 story of Lady Jane Grey . It is not unlikely that his experience of the inefficacy and incredibility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from English History , at no great distance from our ...
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... stage he made the six following lines : - " Now wider still my growing horrors spread , My fame , my virtue , nay my frenzy's fled . Then view thy wretched blood , imperial Jove . If crimes enrage you , or misfor- tunes move , On me ...
... stage he made the six following lines : - " Now wider still my growing horrors spread , My fame , my virtue , nay my frenzy's fled . Then view thy wretched blood , imperial Jove . If crimes enrage you , or misfor- tunes move , On me ...
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... stage , where it still keeps its turns of appearing ; and probably will long keep them , for there is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the fable and so delightful by the language . The story is domestick , and ...
... stage , where it still keeps its turns of appearing ; and probably will long keep them , for there is scarcely any work of any poet at once so interesting by the fable and so delightful by the language . The story is domestick , and ...
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