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Page 15
... never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler by ...
... never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler by ...
Page 16
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tis- sues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French ...
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tis- sues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French ...
Page 17
... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If ...
... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If ...
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... never had seen such a first play ; but they found it deficient in some things requisite to the suc- cess of its exhibition , and , by their greater experience , fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , pro ...
... never had seen such a first play ; but they found it deficient in some things requisite to the suc- cess of its exhibition , and , by their greater experience , fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , pro ...
Page 24
... never make him suspected for a puritan ; he therefore ( 1698 ) published " A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was ...
... never make him suspected for a puritan ; he therefore ( 1698 ) published " A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was ...
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