Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... tragedy of his own . His Lord- fhip's patronage , he fays , will not let him repent his paffion for the stage ; —and the particular praise bestowed on Othello and Oroonoko feems to fhew that fome fuch character as Zanga was even then in ...
... tragedy of his own . His Lord- fhip's patronage , he fays , will not let him repent his paffion for the stage ; —and the particular praise bestowed on Othello and Oroonoko feems to fhew that fome fuch character as Zanga was even then in ...
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... tragedy by Edmund Smith , and wrought into a tragedy by Rowe . The dedication of it to the countefs of Salisbury does not ap- pear in his own edition . He hopes it may be fome excufe for his prefumption that the story could not have ...
... tragedy by Edmund Smith , and wrought into a tragedy by Rowe . The dedication of it to the countefs of Salisbury does not ap- pear in his own edition . He hopes it may be fome excufe for his prefumption that the story could not have ...
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... tragedy by Young was in the theatre fo early as 1713 ; yet Bufiris was not brought upon Drury - Lane Stage till 1719. It was infcribed to the Duke of Newcastle , because the late inftances he " had " had received of his Grace's ...
... tragedy by Young was in the theatre fo early as 1713 ; yet Bufiris was not brought upon Drury - Lane Stage till 1719. It was infcribed to the Duke of Newcastle , because the late inftances he " had " had received of his Grace's ...
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... tragedy on the story of Mary Queen of Scots . Dryden dedicated Marriage à la Mode to Wharton's infamous relation Rochef- ter ; whom he acknowledges not only as the defender of his poetry , but as the pro- moter of his fortune . Young ...
... tragedy on the story of Mary Queen of Scots . Dryden dedicated Marriage à la Mode to Wharton's infamous relation Rochef- ter ; whom he acknowledges not only as the defender of his poetry , but as the pro- moter of his fortune . Young ...
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... tragedy , Grafton is faid to have sent him a human fkull , with a candle in it , as a proper lamp * . After infcribing his Satires , not in the hope of not finding preferments and honours , to the Duke of Dorfet , Mr. Dodington , Mr ...
... tragedy , Grafton is faid to have sent him a human fkull , with a candle in it , as a proper lamp * . After infcribing his Satires , not in the hope of not finding preferments and honours , to the Duke of Dorfet , Mr. Dodington , Mr ...
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