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... hand at fools , and a great felicity " in writing nonfenfe for them . Fools they " will be in fpite of him . His King , his two Empreffes , his villain , and his fub - villain , 66 nay his hero , have all a certain natural " caft of the ...
... hand at fools , and a great felicity " in writing nonfenfe for them . Fools they " will be in fpite of him . His King , his two Empreffes , his villain , and his fub - villain , 66 nay his hero , have all a certain natural " caft of the ...
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... hand , ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill imitating would excel , ) Might hence prefume the whole creation's day , To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions ; for the heat of ...
... hand , ( Such as difquiet always what is well , And by ill imitating would excel , ) Might hence prefume the whole creation's day , To change in fcenes , and fhow it in a play . It is another of his hafty productions ; for the heat of ...
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... hands , employed upon this performance ; in which , though by fome artifice of action it yet keeps poffeffion of the ... hand . The Rehearsal was played in 1671 * , and yet is reprefented as ridiculing paffages in the Conqueft of Granada ...
... hands , employed upon this performance ; in which , though by fome artifice of action it yet keeps poffeffion of the ... hand . The Rehearsal was played in 1671 * , and yet is reprefented as ridiculing paffages in the Conqueft of Granada ...
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Samuel Johnson. and , as his adverfaries had the proof in their own hands , he , who knew that wit had lit- tle power against facts , wifely left , in that per- plexity which it generally produces , a quef- tion which it was his interest ...
Samuel Johnson. and , as his adverfaries had the proof in their own hands , he , who knew that wit had lit- tle power against facts , wifely left , in that per- plexity which it generally produces , a quef- tion which it was his interest ...
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... hands . Of the Eng- lith Tacitus he tranflated the first book ; and , if Gordon be credited , tranflated it from the French . Such a charge can hardly be mentioned without fome degree of indigna- tion ; but it is not , I fuppofe , so ...
... hands . Of the Eng- lith Tacitus he tranflated the first book ; and , if Gordon be credited , tranflated it from the French . Such a charge can hardly be mentioned without fome degree of indigna- tion ; but it is not , I fuppofe , so ...
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