Scanderbeg: Or, Love and Liberty: A TragedyW. Reeve, 1747 - 320 Seiten |
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... like- wife tranflated by Mr. Echard ; and fince him by Mr. Thomas Cooke , who published them , with a new Edition of the Original , Befides , one ' Vantage more in this I fee ; Your Cenf'rers now must have the Quality Of Reading , which ...
... like- wife tranflated by Mr. Echard ; and fince him by Mr. Thomas Cooke , who published them , with a new Edition of the Original , Befides , one ' Vantage more in this I fee ; Your Cenf'rers now must have the Quality Of Reading , which ...
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... likewife omitted in the exact alphabe- tical Order , Sir WILLIAM Barclay , The Author of one Play call'd The Loft Lady , a Tragi - Co- medy . C. CAREW This Lady lived in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth , and wrote the following Play ...
... likewife omitted in the exact alphabe- tical Order , Sir WILLIAM Barclay , The Author of one Play call'd The Loft Lady , a Tragi - Co- medy . C. CAREW This Lady lived in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth , and wrote the following Play ...
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... likewife fuppofed to be the Author of VII . Sir SOLOMON , or the Cautious Coxcomb , a Comedy , acted at the Duke's Theatre 1671 . Mr. RICHARD CARPENTER . This Author was fuppofed to be a Divine , and wrote one Play in the Reign of King ...
... likewife fuppofed to be the Author of VII . Sir SOLOMON , or the Cautious Coxcomb , a Comedy , acted at the Duke's Theatre 1671 . Mr. RICHARD CARPENTER . This Author was fuppofed to be a Divine , and wrote one Play in the Reign of King ...
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... likewife compofed feve- ral other poetical Pieces , ap proved by the ingenious Men of that Time , viz . Nocturnal Lucubrations , or Meditations Di- vine and Moral , dedicated to Peter Ball , Efq ; Solicitor Ge-- neral to Queen Mary ...
... likewife compofed feve- ral other poetical Pieces , ap proved by the ingenious Men of that Time , viz . Nocturnal Lucubrations , or Meditations Di- vine and Moral , dedicated to Peter Ball , Efq ; Solicitor Ge-- neral to Queen Mary ...
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... likewife wrote a Latin Comedy , intitul- ed Naufragium foculare ; The Merry Shipwreck ; which was acted before the University of Cambridge , by the Members of Trinity - College 1638. He like , wife wrote a great many other excellent ...
... likewife wrote a Latin Comedy , intitul- ed Naufragium foculare ; The Merry Shipwreck ; which was acted before the University of Cambridge , by the Members of Trinity - College 1638. He like , wife wrote a great many other excellent ...
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Seite 140 - He had by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford.
Seite 142 - Mr. Jonson, who was at that time altogether unknown to the world, had offered one of his plays to the players, in order to have it acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put, after having turned it carelessly and superciliously over, were just upon returning it to him with an ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company ; when...
Seite 147 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Seite 142 - His Acquaintance with Ben Johnson began with a remarkable piece of Humanity and good Nature; Mr Johnson, who was at that Time altogether unknown to the World, had offer'd one of his Plays to the Players, in order to have it...
Seite 140 - He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguished him, if not as an extraordinary actor, yet as an excellent writer.
Seite 140 - Perhaps we are not to look for his beginnings, like those of other authors, among their least perfect writings ; art had so little, and nature so large a share in what he did, that, for aught I know...
Seite 222 - I will say but one word more in general of his writings, which is, that what he has done in any one species, or distinct kind, would have been sufficient to have acquired him a great name. If he had written nothing but his prefaces, or nothing but his songs or his prologues, each of them would have entitled him to the preference and distinction of excelling in his kind.
Seite 139 - ... he was his eldest son, he could give him no better education than his own employment.
Seite 221 - Indeed, it is to be regretted, that he was rather blameable in the other extreme; for, by that means, he was personally less known, and, consequently, his character might become liable both to misapprehensions and misrepresentations.
Seite 221 - ... last, even to near seventy years of age, improving even in fire and imagination, as well as in judgment; witness his Ode on St Cecilia's Day, and his Fables, his latest performances.