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Page 166
... play - house , for the prop of an age . } Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played ...
... play - house , for the prop of an age . } Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played ...
Page 241
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , ' whom , ' says he , ' I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those ...
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , ' whom , ' says he , ' I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those ...
Page 257
... play the prologue and the epilogue , though written upon the common topicks of malicious and ignorant criticism ... play was first acted in 1690 , after Dryden had for some years discontinued dramatick poetry . Amphitryon is a comedy ...
... play the prologue and the epilogue , though written upon the common topicks of malicious and ignorant criticism ... play was first acted in 1690 , after Dryden had for some years discontinued dramatick poetry . Amphitryon is a comedy ...
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