Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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Page 73
... tragedy ( 1698 ) ; The British Enchanters ( 1706 ) , a dramatick poem ; and Peleus and Thetis , a masque , written to accompany The Few of Venice . The comedies , which he has not printed in his own edition of his works , I never saw ...
... tragedy ( 1698 ) ; The British Enchanters ( 1706 ) , a dramatick poem ; and Peleus and Thetis , a masque , written to accompany The Few of Venice . The comedies , which he has not printed in his own edition of his works , I never saw ...
Page 158
... tragedy upon the story of Sir Thomas Overbury , in which he pre- served a few lines of the former play , but made a total alteration of the plan , added new incidents , and intro- duced new characters ; so that it was a new tragedy ...
... tragedy upon the story of Sir Thomas Overbury , in which he pre- served a few lines of the former play , but made a total alteration of the plan , added new incidents , and intro- duced new characters ; so that it was a new tragedy ...
Page 401
... tragedy by Edmund Smith , and wrought into a tragedy by Rowe . The dedication of it to YOUNG 401.
... tragedy by Edmund Smith , and wrought into a tragedy by Rowe . The dedication of it to YOUNG 401.
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