 There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done every thing by chance. The Old Bachelor was written for amusement, in the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed with great elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 184by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 478 pages
...great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and in*ceffant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance; for, whenever...Mr. Dryden, Mr. Southern, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play; but they found it deficient in fome things requifite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and inceflant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance; for, whenever...Mr. Dryden, Mr; Southern, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play; but they found it deficient in fome things requifite... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 pages
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and incefiant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance; for, whenever...old ; and was then recommended by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Southerne, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play; but they found... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 474 pages
...and in-» ceflant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonder* ful performance; for, whenever written, it was acted (1693)...Mr. Dryden, Mr. Southern, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play; but they found it deficient in fome things requifite... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 278 pages
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and inceflant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance ; for, whenever written, it was afted -(1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old ; and was then recommended by Mr. Dryden,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1791 - 490 pages
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and inceflant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance ; for, whenever...twenty-one years old ; and was then recommended by Mr.Dryden, Mr. Southern, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1794 - 424 pages
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and incefiant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance ; for, whenever written, it was a&ed (1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old ; and was then recommended by Mr. Dryden,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...by the biographers. His firft Dramatick labour was the " Old Bachelor," which, whenever •written, was acted (1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a hrft play. Few theatrical pieces have ever been fo beneficial... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...content you." And so also Dr. Johnson, (in his Life of Congreve,) relying on. these authorities : " The age of the writer considered, it is indeed a very...(1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old." that we are not to wonder at this early exertion of his talents having been rendered still more extraordinary,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...content you." And so also Dr. Johnson, (in his Life of Congreve,) relying on these authorities : " The age of the writer considered, it is indeed a very...(1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old." that we are not to wonder at this early exertion of his talents having been rendered still more extraordinary,... | |
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