The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards re- vised it , he reduced the versification to greater re- gularity , there is more bustle than sentiment , the plot is busy and intricate , and the events take hold ...
... kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards re- vised it , he reduced the versification to greater re- gularity , there is more bustle than sentiment , the plot is busy and intricate , and the events take hold ...
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... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the mo- dels of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly , for since I in- spected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my ...
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the mo- dels of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly , for since I in- spected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my ...
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... kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sen tence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations . His comedies have , therefore , in some degree ...
... kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sen tence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations . His comedies have , therefore , in some degree ...
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... kind , this age has seen a most audacious example in the book en- titled ' A Tale of a Tub . ' Had this writing been published in a pagan or popish nation , who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to the es- tablished religion ...
... kind , this age has seen a most audacious example in the book en- titled ' A Tale of a Tub . ' Had this writing been published in a pagan or popish nation , who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to the es- tablished religion ...
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... kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore , being despised as a poet , was in time neglected as a physician ; his practice , which was once invidiously great , for ...
... kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore , being despised as a poet , was in time neglected as a physician ; his practice , which was once invidiously great , for ...
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