 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...gallant than the last. DEFENCE OP THE EPILOGUE: OR AH ESSAY ON THE DRAMATICK POETRY OF LAST AGE. J. HE promises of Authors, that they will write again, are,...they promise, will have their pardon on easy terms. It is from this consideration that I could be glad to spare you the trouble which I am now giving you,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...ON THE DRAMATICS POETRY OF THE LAST AGE. JL HE promises of Authors, that they will write again, arc, in effect, a threatening of their readers with some...they promise, will have their pardon on easy terms. It is from this consideration that I could be glad to spare you the trouble which I am now giving you,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...will) That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpass'd, To please an age more gallant than the last. DEFENCE OF THE EPILOGUE: OR AN ESSAY ON THE DRAMATICK POETRY OF THE LAST AGE. J. HE promises of Authors, that they will write again, are, in effect,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 474 pages
...theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will)? That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast, To please an age more gallant than the last. * The characters alluded to are Cobb, the water bearer, in " Every Man in his Humour;" and Captain... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 394 pages
...First, 1 Epistle Dedicatory to the Duke of York, 9 Of Heroic Plays, an Essay, 16 Part II • « in Defence of the Epilogue ; or an Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the last Age, • • 211 Marriage A-la-Mode, a Comedy, 231 Epistle Dedicatory to the Earl of Rochester, 235 The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 562 pages
...the " Conquest of Granada," Dryden prefixed an essay on Heroic Plays, and subjoined to the second a Defence of the Epilogue ; or, an essay on the dramatic poetry of the last age. In 1679 was published an " Essay on Satire," written jointly by the earl of Mulgrave and Dryden. This... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 560 pages
...the " Conquest of Granada," Dryden prefixed an essay on Heroic Plays, and subjoined to the second a Defence of the Epilogue ; or, an essay on the dramatic poetry of the last age. In 1679 was published an " Essay on Satire," written jointly by the earl of Mulgrave and Dryden. This... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...theirs. Yet, though you jadge (as sure the crities will) That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast, To please an age more gallant than the last." Dryden was called over the coals among the writers of the last age for this sacrilegious Epilogue by... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 468 pages
...was to christen his drinking cups by the names of Horse, Bull, and Bear. DEFENCE OF THE EPILOGUE; OB, AN ESSAY ON THE DRAMATIC POETRY OF THE LAST AGE. THE...they promise, will have their pardon on easy terms. It is from this consideration, that I could be glad to spare you the trouble, which I am now giving... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill, In this one praise he has their fame surpast, To please an age more gallant than the last." The daring doctrine laid down in these obnoxious lines, our author ventured to maintain, in what he... | |
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... those poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else his writing is not worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will),... 
