The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... plays ; and if I shall hereafter ob- tain a more correct chronology , will publish it : but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous . * Langbaine's authority will not support the dates assigned to Dryden's Plays . These are now ...
... plays ; and if I shall hereafter ob- tain a more correct chronology , will publish it : but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous . * Langbaine's authority will not support the dates assigned to Dryden's Plays . These are now ...
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... play itself is without the article , " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry sharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . H. whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude 14 ...
... play itself is without the article , " Cutter of Coleman - street , " and that because a merry sharking fellow about the town , named Cutter , is a principal character in it . H. whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude 14 ...
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... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he ex- culpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
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... , the perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . 66 Cowley's Mistress has no power of seduction : she plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Inred Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , COWLEY . 45.
... , the perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . 66 Cowley's Mistress has no power of seduction : she plays round the head , but reaches not the heart . " Inred Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , COWLEY . 45.
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... plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . He sometimes extends his author's thoughts with- out improving them . In ...
... plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . He sometimes extends his author's thoughts with- out improving them . In ...
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