The Poetical Register: Or, The Lives and Characters of All the English Poets. With an Account of Their Writings, Volume 2 |
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... fome Imperfections as well as Omiffions , which I shall take a great pleasure in correcting upon better Information , and which I promise the World to do in a Supplement to this Treatife , when Occafion fhall re- quire it . I THE NAME S ...
... fome Imperfections as well as Omiffions , which I shall take a great pleasure in correcting upon better Information , and which I promise the World to do in a Supplement to this Treatife , when Occafion fhall re- quire it . I THE NAME S ...
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... fome , more celebrated Authors , are deficient in . He has Seven Plays in Print , which I infert in their Order of Time . 1. The Rival Kings , or The Loves of OR OONDATES and STATIRA ; a Tragedy written in Heroick Verfe , and A & ted at ...
... fome , more celebrated Authors , are deficient in . He has Seven Plays in Print , which I infert in their Order of Time . 1. The Rival Kings , or The Loves of OR OONDATES and STATIRA ; a Tragedy written in Heroick Verfe , and A & ted at ...
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... fome Difficulty to refrain from Tears . The Prologue and Epilogue were written by Mr. Dryden And the Play is founded on The Secret . Hiftory of the moft Renowned Queen Elizabeth , and the Earl of Effex ; Camden's Elizabeth , Speed , Du ...
... fome Difficulty to refrain from Tears . The Prologue and Epilogue were written by Mr. Dryden And the Play is founded on The Secret . Hiftory of the moft Renowned Queen Elizabeth , and the Earl of Effex ; Camden's Elizabeth , Speed , Du ...
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... fome mistaken Cenfures , and groundless Infinuations , that it reflected on the Government . In his Dedi- cation there is a Defence fetting forth its being writ Ten Years before ; fo that it could defign no Reflection on the then ...
... fome mistaken Cenfures , and groundless Infinuations , that it reflected on the Government . In his Dedi- cation there is a Defence fetting forth its being writ Ten Years before ; fo that it could defign no Reflection on the then ...
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... fome Gentleman , her particu- lar Friend , under the Name of Philafter . The De- fign is borrow'd from Calprenade's Cleopatra . See the Hiftory of Alcamenes and Menalippa , p . 8 . XIII . The Lucky Chance , or An Alderman's Bargain ; A ...
... fome Gentleman , her particu- lar Friend , under the Name of Philafter . The De- fign is borrow'd from Calprenade's Cleopatra . See the Hiftory of Alcamenes and Menalippa , p . 8 . XIII . The Lucky Chance , or An Alderman's Bargain ; A ...
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