 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...It is true, that authors of the latter period fell far below those gigantic poets, who flourished in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries ; but what the stage had lost in dramatic .composition, was, in some degree, supplied by the increasing splendour... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Actors - 1812 - 500 pages
...Haymarket, August 1803. This •was founded on a tradition, well known in Scotland, of a noted jobber, at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries ; who, with a desperate gang, infested the Highlands. His real name was Robert Rover M'Gregor; but... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 492 pages
...Hay market, August 1803. This was founded on a tradition, well known in Scotland, of a noted robber, at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries ; who, with a desperate gang, infested the Highlands. His real name was Robert Rover M'Gregor; but... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 494 pages
...Haymarket, August 1603. This was founded on a tradition, well known in Scotland, of a noted robber, at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries ; who, with a desperate gang, infested the Highlands. His real name was Robert Rover M'Gregor ; but... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - Education - 1815 - 598 pages
...laws of equilibrium, which the great Galileo carried much farther. This philosopher, who flourished at the end of the sixteenth, and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, laid the foundation of almost all the discoveries which have succeeded each other, for more than two... | |
 | Robert Joseph Pothier - Bailments - 1821 - 228 pages
...son Philip. They are denominated the Caroline Laws. (Emrr.i£on, lies Assurances, prpf. p. 12, 13.) At the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries appeared the Laws of the Hansc-Towns. The nature of this confederation, the celebrity it acquired .and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...It is true, that authors of the latter period fell far below those gigantic poets, who flourished in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries ; but what the stage had lost in dramatic composition, was, in some degree, supplied by the increasing splendour... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...It is true, that authors of the latter period fell far below those gigantic poets, who flourished in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries; but what the stage had lost in dramatic composition was, in some degree, supplied by the increasing splendour... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...It is true, that authors of the latter period fell far below those gigantic-poets, who flourished in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries; but what the stage had lost in dramatic composition was, in some degree, supplied by the increasing splendour... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...It is true, that authors of the latter period fell far below those gigantic poets, who flourished in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries ; but what the stage had lost in dramatic composition, was, in some degree, supplied by the increasing splendour... | |
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It is true, that authors of the latter period fell far below those gigantic poets, who flourished in the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries... 
