The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 pages |
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... produce it on the stage . To men of genius the stage holds forth temptations almost resistless . The profits arising from a tragedy , including the representation and printing of it , and the connec- tions which it sometimes enables the ...
... produce it on the stage . To men of genius the stage holds forth temptations almost resistless . The profits arising from a tragedy , including the representation and printing of it , and the connec- tions which it sometimes enables the ...
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... produced . At length , in the october of this year , he gave to the world his edition of Shakespeare , which is chiefly valuable for the preface , where the excellencies and defects of that immortal bard are displayed with such ...
... produced . At length , in the october of this year , he gave to the world his edition of Shakespeare , which is chiefly valuable for the preface , where the excellencies and defects of that immortal bard are displayed with such ...
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... produce his equal . The work was published in ten small volumes , of which the first four came abroad 1778 , and the others in 1781. While the world in general was filled with admiration of the stupendous powers of that man who , at the ...
... produce his equal . The work was published in ten small volumes , of which the first four came abroad 1778 , and the others in 1781. While the world in general was filled with admiration of the stupendous powers of that man who , at the ...
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... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though this was not pub- lished till he had been some time at Cambridge , to which place he was removed in 1636 , and where he continued his studies with great intenseness ; for he is said to ...
... produced a comedy called " Love's Riddle , " though this was not pub- lished till he had been some time at Cambridge , to which place he was removed in 1636 , and where he continued his studies with great intenseness ; for he is said to ...
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... produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unex- pected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very ...
... produce . The bulk of his thoughts sometimes swelled his verse to unex- pected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortuitous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very ...
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