Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 26
... common , as Wittol a tame idiot , Bluff a swaggering coward , and Fondlewife a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from a mistake not very probably produced , by marrying a woman in a mask . Yet this gay comedy , when all these ...
... common , as Wittol a tame idiot , Bluff a swaggering coward , and Fondlewife a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from a mistake not very probably produced , by marrying a woman in a mask . Yet this gay comedy , when all these ...
Page 27
... common limits of nature than the plays of Con- greve . About this time began the long - continued contro- versy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puritans had raised a violent clamour against the ...
... common limits of nature than the plays of Con- greve . About this time began the long - continued contro- versy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puritans had raised a violent clamour against the ...
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... common promises of future excellence , undertook to superintend his education , and provide him books . He was taught the common rudiments of learning at the school of Jedburg , a place which he delights to recollect in his poem of ...
... common promises of future excellence , undertook to superintend his education , and provide him books . He was taught the common rudiments of learning at the school of Jedburg , a place which he delights to recollect in his poem of ...
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