Le public et les hommes de lettres en Angleterre au dix-huitième siècle, 1660-1744 (Dryden, Addison, Pope).

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Hachette, 1881 - 506 páginas

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Página 140 - Playes consisted in bringing two persons upon the Stage to break Jests, and to bob one another, which they call Repartie...
Página 313 - Lastly, his writings have set all our wits and men of letters upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Página 455 - The Works of Andrew Marvell, Esq. ; Poetical, Controversial, and Political; containing many original Letters, Poems, and Tracts, never before printed, with a new Life of the Author, by Capt. Edward Thompson, in Three Volumes.
Página 140 - Playes which have been wrote of late, there is no such thing as perfect Character, but the two chief persons are most commonly a Swearing, Drinking, W'horing, Ruffian for a Lover, and an impudent ill-bred tomrig for a Mistress...
Página 313 - ... fops and young fellows of the value and advantages of learning. He has indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amiable and lovely to all mankind.
Página 490 - L'Estrange. London, Printed for J. Macock, for Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1676.
Página 313 - It is incredible to conceive the effect his writings have had on the town ; how many thousand follies they have either quite banished, or given a very great check to; how much countenance they have added to virtue and religion ; how many people they have rendered happy, by...
Página 212 - I am entering on another copious subject ; what does this kingdom owe your lordship 1 you have been in several reigns, one of the greatest ornaments of England ; but you have of late been one of its fortunate preservers : your lordship was an eminent instrument in this revolution, which has been so happy to England, and the greatest part of Europe. Had not this change been, almost all Europe had been overrun by France ; England, for certain, had lost its rights, liberties, and religion, and perhaps...
Página 424 - Calisto : or, The Chaste Nimph. The late Masque at Court, As it was frequently Presented there, By several Persons of Great Quality.
Página 450 - Why, sir, as trade is now carried on by subordinate hands, men in trade have as much leisure as others ; and now learning itself is a trade. A man goes to a bookseller, and gets what he can. We have done with patronage.

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