The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected: with Notes and Illustrations; an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, Grounded on Original and Authentick Documents; and a Collection of His Letters, the Greater Part of which Has Never Before Been Published, Том 1, Брой 1T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1800 |
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... theatre . On the restoration of the stage , dramatick entertainments of any kind were probably so eagerly followed , that the two companies of comedians then subsisting , the King's Servants and those of the Duke of York , had little ...
... theatre . On the restoration of the stage , dramatick entertainments of any kind were probably so eagerly followed , that the two companies of comedians then subsisting , the King's Servants and those of the Duke of York , had little ...
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... theatre in Vere- street ; for they did not remove to Drury - Lane till April 1663. The following lines in the original prologue to this play denote that the theatres had been opened for some time before its production , and that ...
... theatre in Vere- street ; for they did not remove to Drury - Lane till April 1663. The following lines in the original prologue to this play denote that the theatres had been opened for some time before its production , and that ...
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... theatre in spring 1662 , ' and which doubtless continued to be frequently acted in the course of the following winter . " At this time our author was patronised by the celebrated Barbara 7 It was acted twelve days successively with ...
... theatre in spring 1662 , ' and which doubtless continued to be frequently acted in the course of the following winter . " At this time our author was patronised by the celebrated Barbara 7 It was acted twelve days successively with ...
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... have thought had more wit , " The censure of every man did disdain , " Pleading some pitiful rhymes he had writ " In praise of the Countess of Castlemaine . " King's Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1671-2.- 3. from DRYDEN . 55.
... have thought had more wit , " The censure of every man did disdain , " Pleading some pitiful rhymes he had writ " In praise of the Countess of Castlemaine . " King's Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1671-2.- 3. from DRYDEN . 55.
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... Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1671-2.- 3. from that era to 1682 , when he discontinued writing for the stage . - 4 . from 1690 to 1694 , in which period his last five plays were produced . In settling the dates and succession of his ...
... Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1671-2.- 3. from that era to 1682 , when he discontinued writing for the stage . - 4 . from 1690 to 1694 , in which period his last five plays were produced . In settling the dates and succession of his ...
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Страница 145 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Страница x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying; them.
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Страница 363 - Psalms ; whence you may find, that we don't think a poet worth Christian burial. The pomp of the ceremony was a kind of rhapsody, and fitter, I think, for Hudibras, than him; because the cavalcade was mostly burlesque : but he was an extraordinary man, and buried after an extraordinary fashion ; for I do believe there was never such another burial seen. The oration, indeed, was great and ingenious, worthy the subject, and like the author; whose prescriptions can restore the living, and his pen embalm...
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Страница 62 - Neander, to be in company together; three of them persons whom their wit and quality have made known to all the town; and whom I have chose to hide under these borrowed names, that they may not suffer by so ill a relation as I am going to make of their discourse.
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Страница viii - DRYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition.