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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... late he has given us a Cyrus , yet it was writ fome Years ago , he wholly applying himself to a more gain- ful employ . If the Golden Age of Poetry carried him from that in the Luxurious Reign of Charles II . when more People run Mad af ...
... late he has given us a Cyrus , yet it was writ fome Years ago , he wholly applying himself to a more gain- ful employ . If the Golden Age of Poetry carried him from that in the Luxurious Reign of Charles II . when more People run Mad af ...
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... late Tragedies ; tho ' in hisMetaphors , he seems not to ' ve confulted that Juftness which the Rules of good Rhetorick requires ; but like all other human Performances , as it has its Beauties , it has alfo its Faults , but not enough ...
... late Tragedies ; tho ' in hisMetaphors , he seems not to ' ve confulted that Juftness which the Rules of good Rhetorick requires ; but like all other human Performances , as it has its Beauties , it has alfo its Faults , but not enough ...
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... late Trouble- fome Times , together with Epiftles and Epigrams , Tranflated from divers Authors , Printed about the time of the Restauration of King Charles II . and again 1664. Befides thefe , we have under his Name Horace , 8vo . tho ...
... late Trouble- fome Times , together with Epiftles and Epigrams , Tranflated from divers Authors , Printed about the time of the Restauration of King Charles II . and again 1664. Befides thefe , we have under his Name Horace , 8vo . tho ...
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... late Antiquarian in his Antiquit.Oxon . and ( b ) Mr. Loyd in his Memoirs , the firft making him Gloucestershire , and the latter Oxofordshire ; but all agree he was brought up a King's Schollar at Eaton , under Dr. Olbafton , and chofe ...
... late Antiquarian in his Antiquit.Oxon . and ( b ) Mr. Loyd in his Memoirs , the firft making him Gloucestershire , and the latter Oxofordshire ; but all agree he was brought up a King's Schollar at Eaton , under Dr. Olbafton , and chofe ...
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... late Schoolmafter of Westminster , act- ing a part therein ; and afterwards at Hampton Court , to both Their Majefties , by the Players , at the Queens Command ; and tho ' the Poet gave equal Inftructions , the Students carryed the ...
... late Schoolmafter of Westminster , act- ing a part therein ; and afterwards at Hampton Court , to both Their Majefties , by the Players , at the Queens Command ; and tho ' the Poet gave equal Inftructions , the Students carryed the ...
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