Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 172
... dramatick fashion . Of this play nothing new can easily be said . It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life . Its whole power is upon the affections ; for it is not written with much compre- hension of thought , or elegance of ...
... dramatick fashion . Of this play nothing new can easily be said . It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life . Its whole power is upon the affections ; for it is not written with much compre- hension of thought , or elegance of ...
Page 248
... Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in ... Drama- tick Poetry , an elegant and instructive dialogue ; in which we are told by Prior , that the principal ...
... Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in ... Drama- tick Poetry , an elegant and instructive dialogue ; in which we are told by Prior , that the principal ...
Page 257
... dramatick , epick , or lyrick way . This promise was never formally performed ; but , with respect to the dramatick writers , he has given us in his prefaces , and in this postscript , some- thing equivalent ; but his purpose being to ...
... dramatick , epick , or lyrick way . This promise was never formally performed ; but , with respect to the dramatick writers , he has given us in his prefaces , and in this postscript , some- thing equivalent ; but his purpose being to ...
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