Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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Page 93
... seems to mean by this sentence that , if Rochester devoted his energies to authorship , he would outstrip all rivals and be a danger to professional dramatists , but it might be interpreted in a more unpleasant way . Several reasons ...
... seems to mean by this sentence that , if Rochester devoted his energies to authorship , he would outstrip all rivals and be a danger to professional dramatists , but it might be interpreted in a more unpleasant way . Several reasons ...
Page 96
... seems to have been no actual fighting . The intimacy between Dryden and Mulgrave prob- ably appeared to Rochester as an insult to himself and henceforth he was the Laureate's enemy , though he never wavered in his acknowledgment of his ...
... seems to have been no actual fighting . The intimacy between Dryden and Mulgrave prob- ably appeared to Rochester as an insult to himself and henceforth he was the Laureate's enemy , though he never wavered in his acknowledgment of his ...
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... seems likely that he began to sketch a final satiric outburst in the form of a Farewell to the Court . A poem called Rochester's Farewell , containing passages of great power , but remarkably uneven in style and in parts somewhat in ...
... seems likely that he began to sketch a final satiric outburst in the form of a Farewell to the Court . A poem called Rochester's Farewell , containing passages of great power , but remarkably uneven in style and in parts somewhat in ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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