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Page viii
... fame , now found but few imitators . * Waller , and especially Denham , had looked back on Fairfax and our elder poets with ad- vantage , and had shown that a simpler and easier style , a more melodious and smoother system of verse ...
... fame , now found but few imitators . * Waller , and especially Denham , had looked back on Fairfax and our elder poets with ad- vantage , and had shown that a simpler and easier style , a more melodious and smoother system of verse ...
Page viii
... fame . * Dryden has prefixed some lines to a volume of Sir R. Howard's Poetry ; they have but little refer- ence to the subject to which they are addressed , and a person would in vain search the poems of the author to discover ...
... fame . * Dryden has prefixed some lines to a volume of Sir R. Howard's Poetry ; they have but little refer- ence to the subject to which they are addressed , and a person would in vain search the poems of the author to discover ...
Page xiv
... fame ; but Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , certainly took a higher ground , when he brought out his cele- brated farce of the Rehearsal , in order to cor rect the public taste by holding up the rhyming tragedies to ridicule . This ...
... fame ; but Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , certainly took a higher ground , when he brought out his cele- brated farce of the Rehearsal , in order to cor rect the public taste by holding up the rhyming tragedies to ridicule . This ...
Page xvii
... fame ; and in his own ad- dress to Sedley , he notices these attacks with the contempt which they deserved . Edward Ravenscroft , who constructed a slender and temporary reputation by altering the plays of Shakspeare , and imitating ...
... fame ; and in his own ad- dress to Sedley , he notices these attacks with the contempt which they deserved . Edward Ravenscroft , who constructed a slender and temporary reputation by altering the plays of Shakspeare , and imitating ...
Page xix
... fame , than he was anxious to dethrone him ; to effect this he persuaded Crowne to write the mask of Calisto , which was acted in 1675 by the ladies at court , who were most distinguished for their rank and See ' The Art of Poetry ...
... fame , than he was anxious to dethrone him ; to effect this he persuaded Crowne to write the mask of Calisto , which was acted in 1675 by the ladies at court , who were most distinguished for their rank and See ' The Art of Poetry ...
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