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... because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and revived ; but fince the plays are faid to be printed in the order in which they were written , from the dates of fome , thofe of others may be inferred ; and thus ...
... because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and revived ; but fince the plays are faid to be printed in the order in which they were written , from the dates of fome , thofe of others may be inferred ; and thus ...
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... because it pleafes , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marr - all ( 1668 ) is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at firft without the name of the author . Langbaine charges it ...
... because it pleafes , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marr - all ( 1668 ) is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at firft without the name of the author . Langbaine charges it ...
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... , and be fo ❝ critical in other men's writings . Fortune is fancied ftanding on a globe , not on a Sphere , as he told us in the first act . " " Because Becaufe Elkanah's Similies are the most unlike things to what 32 DRYDEN .
... , and be fo ❝ critical in other men's writings . Fortune is fancied ftanding on a globe , not on a Sphere , as he told us in the first act . " " Because Becaufe Elkanah's Similies are the most unlike things to what 32 DRYDEN .
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... because we will allow him all we can to 66 help out , let it be a phenix fea - wasp , and " the rarity of fuch an animal may do much " towards heightening the fancy . " It had been much more to his purpose , " if he had designed to ...
... because we will allow him all we can to 66 help out , let it be a phenix fea - wasp , and " the rarity of fuch an animal may do much " towards heightening the fancy . " It had been much more to his purpose , " if he had designed to ...
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... because it fo much expofed the keeping part of the " town . 99 Oedipus ( 1679 ) is a tragedy formed by Dry- den and Lee , in conjunction , from the works . of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed ...
... because it fo much expofed the keeping part of the " town . 99 Oedipus ( 1679 ) is a tragedy formed by Dry- den and Lee , in conjunction , from the works . of Sophocles , Seneca , and Corneille . Dryden planned the scenes , and compofed ...
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