 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 478
...great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and in*ceffant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance; for, whenever...then recommended by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Southern, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play; but they found it deficient in fome... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 474
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and inceflant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance; for, whenever...then recommended by Mr. Dryden, Mr; Southern, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play; but they found it deficient in fome... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 276
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and incefiant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance; for, whenever...old ; and was then recommended by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Southerne, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play; but they found... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 474
...and in-» ceflant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonder* ful performance; for, whenever written, it was acted (1693)...then recommended by Mr. Dryden, Mr. Southern, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play; but they found it deficient in fome... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 278
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and inceflant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance ; for, whenever written, it was afted -(1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old ; and was then recommended by Mr. Dryden,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1791 - Страниц: 490
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and inceflant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance ; for, whenever...twenty-one years old ; and was then recommended by Mr.Dryden, Mr. Southern, and Mr. Maynwaring. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a firft play ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1794 - Страниц: 424
...with great elaboratenefs of dialogue, and incefiant ambition of wit. The age of the writer confidered, it is indeed a very wonderful performance ; for, whenever written, it was a&ed (1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old ; and was then recommended by Mr. Dryden,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - Страниц: 278
...by the biographers. His firft Dramatick labour was the " Old Bachelor," which, whenever •written, was acted (1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old. Dryden faid that he never had feen fuch a hrft play. Few theatrical pieces have ever been fo beneficial... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Страниц: 606
...content you." And so also Dr. Johnson, (in his Life of Congreve,) relying on these authorities : " The age of the writer considered, it is indeed a very...(1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old." that we are not to wonder at this early exertion of his talents having been rendered still more extraordinary,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - Страниц: 601
...content you." And so also Dr. Johnson, (in his Life of Congreve,) relying on. these authorities : " The age of the writer considered, it is indeed a very...(1693) when he was not more than twenty-one years old." that we are not to wonder at this early exertion of his talents having been rendered still more extraordinary,... | |
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done every thing by chance. The Old Bachelor was written for amusement, in the languor of convalescence. Yet it is apparently composed with great elaborateness of dialogue, and incessant... 
