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Page 21
... allowed its Author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , CONGREVE . 21.
... allowed its Author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , CONGREVE . 21.
Page 43
... allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasas in verse , but very often reasons poetically , and finds thart of uniting ornament with strength , and ease with closene . This is a skill which Pope might have con- descended to ...
... allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasas in verse , but very often reasons poetically , and finds thart of uniting ornament with strength , and ease with closene . This is a skill which Pope might have con- descended to ...
Page 58
... allowed to the author of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the ballad opera ; a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the experience ...
... allowed to the author of a new species of composition , though it be not of the highest kind . We owe to Gay the ballad opera ; a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the experience ...
Page 59
... allowed all that it claims ; it is sprightly , various , and pleasant . The subject is of that kind which Gay was by nature qualified to adorn ; yet some of his decorations may be justly wished away . An honest black- smith might have ...
... allowed all that it claims ; it is sprightly , various , and pleasant . The subject is of that kind which Gay was by nature qualified to adorn ; yet some of his decorations may be justly wished away . An honest black- smith might have ...
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... allowed . But by a critic of a later generation , who takes up his book without any favourable prejudices , the praise already received will be thought sufficient ; for his works do not shew him to have had much comprehension from ...
... allowed . But by a critic of a later generation , who takes up his book without any favourable prejudices , the praise already received will be thought sufficient ; for his works do not shew him to have had much comprehension from ...
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