Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 172
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 373
... play pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
... play pleased the criticks , and the criticks only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force ...
Page 429
... play without appearing to revenge himself . He therefore pub- ' lished A Narrative of the madness of John Dennis ; a performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing ...
... play without appearing to revenge himself . He therefore pub- ' lished A Narrative of the madness of John Dennis ; a performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing ...
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