Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 238
... reputation as made him at least secure of being heard , whatever might be the final determination of the publick . His first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was so much ...
... reputation as made him at least secure of being heard , whatever might be the final determination of the publick . His first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy auguries ; for his performance was so much ...
Page 261
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to persuade the publick that its approbation had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputa- tion : his Empress of Morocco , having first ...
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to persuade the publick that its approbation had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputa- tion : his Empress of Morocco , having first ...
Page 451
... reputation was now so far advanced , that the publick began to pay reverence to his name ; and he was solicited to prefix a preface to the translation of Boccalini , a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who ...
... reputation was now so far advanced , that the publick began to pay reverence to his name ; and he was solicited to prefix a preface to the translation of Boccalini , a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who ...
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