Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 pages |
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... poetic rapture and enthusiasm ; where a certain poet is mention'd , who having made a number of very bad verfes , wrote one poem which he himself said was egnμá vi Mega : the poem happened to be a very extraordinary one ; and the people ...
... poetic rapture and enthusiasm ; where a certain poet is mention'd , who having made a number of very bad verfes , wrote one poem which he himself said was egnμá vi Mega : the poem happened to be a very extraordinary one ; and the people ...
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... poets write to the humour of the age ; and when their own little stock is spent , they set themselves to work on new - modelling + Shakespeare's plays , 4 Sir William Davenant , and Dryden , began this just after the restoration . They ...
... poets write to the humour of the age ; and when their own little stock is spent , they set themselves to work on new - modelling + Shakespeare's plays , 4 Sir William Davenant , and Dryden , began this just after the restoration . They ...
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... In converfation , than THOSE POETS writ . meaningShakespeare and Johnson . Very gallant truly , Mr. Bays ! In fhort they make up a poet of fhreds and In Sect . 2. on SHAKESPEARE . 15 and adapting them to the taft of their audience; ...
... In converfation , than THOSE POETS writ . meaningShakespeare and Johnson . Very gallant truly , Mr. Bays ! In fhort they make up a poet of fhreds and In Sect . 2. on SHAKESPEARE . 15 and adapting them to the taft of their audience; ...
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... poem that ever was writ , at least in our language . " This cenfure falls equally on Shakespeare for he too wrote in blank verfe with- out rhyme , and made many new and rough words . But let Milton fpeak for himself and his admired ...
... poem that ever was writ , at least in our language . " This cenfure falls equally on Shakespeare for he too wrote in blank verfe with- out rhyme , and made many new and rough words . But let Milton fpeak for himself and his admired ...
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John Upton. true ornament of poem or good verse , in long " works efpecially , but the invention of a bar- « barous age , to fet off wretched matter and " lame metre ; grac'd indeed fince by the ufe of fome famous modern poets , carried ...
John Upton. true ornament of poem or good verse , in long " works efpecially , but the invention of a bar- « barous age , to fet off wretched matter and " lame metre ; grac'd indeed fince by the ufe of fome famous modern poets , carried ...
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