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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 246
... dramatick performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are distinguished by any peculiarity intrinsick or concomitant ; for the composition and fate of eight and twenty dramas ...
... dramatick performances ; it will be fit however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice of those that are distinguished by any peculiarity intrinsick or concomitant ; for the composition and fate of eight and twenty dramas ...
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 ...
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