The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets: Also an Exact Account of All the Plays that Were Ever Yet Printed in the English Tongue; Their Double Titles, the Places where Acted, the Dates when Printed, and the Persons to Whom Dedicated; with Remarks and Observations on Most of the Said PlaysT. Leigh, 1698 - 182 pages |
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... firft Undertaking in Tragedy , in which most have fail'd in their firft Attempt : I say this , leaft any thing my Friend faid , fhould feem a leffening of that Performance of the Author , which he affures me he never meant . THE NAMES ...
... firft Undertaking in Tragedy , in which most have fail'd in their firft Attempt : I say this , leaft any thing my Friend faid , fhould feem a leffening of that Performance of the Author , which he affures me he never meant . THE NAMES ...
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... Firft , for there he has this Stanza : of this dived Ifle the Nurfelings brave Earft from inteltine Wars cou'd not defift , Tet did in Foreign Fields their Names engrave , Whilft whom one fpoild , the other wou'd affift . Thefe now have ...
... Firft , for there he has this Stanza : of this dived Ifle the Nurfelings brave Earft from inteltine Wars cou'd not defift , Tet did in Foreign Fields their Names engrave , Whilft whom one fpoild , the other wou'd affift . Thefe now have ...
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... Firft Scene of the Fifth Act of the Alexandrean Tragedy , Ariftotle and Phoceon , who have no hand in the various Revolutions of that Play , fpend a long Scene on the Uncertainty of Humane Grandeur , only to tell a few Lines of Bufinefs ...
... Firft Scene of the Fifth Act of the Alexandrean Tragedy , Ariftotle and Phoceon , who have no hand in the various Revolutions of that Play , fpend a long Scene on the Uncertainty of Humane Grandeur , only to tell a few Lines of Bufinefs ...
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... Firft , that this I was the Vice of the Age , not the Poet ; he having in that , as well as fome other things , imitated the Vices of our admira- ble Shakespear , and next that thefe punning Fits come not very of- ten upon him . To fhew ...
... Firft , that this I was the Vice of the Age , not the Poet ; he having in that , as well as fome other things , imitated the Vices of our admira- ble Shakespear , and next that thefe punning Fits come not very of- ten upon him . To fhew ...
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... firft bred at Cambridge , and afterwards was a Member of the Honourable Society of Grays- Inn : He writ these three Plays , Deorum Dona , a Mask , 8vo . This is part of a Romance , writ by Baron , call'd the Cyprian Academy , Printed at ...
... firft bred at Cambridge , and afterwards was a Member of the Honourable Society of Grays- Inn : He writ these three Plays , Deorum Dona , a Mask , 8vo . This is part of a Romance , writ by Baron , call'd the Cyprian Academy , Printed at ...
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