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... least happy , " and as his fancy was quick , so likewise " were the products of it remote and new . 66 " He borrowed not of any other , and his imaginations were fuch as could not eafily " enter into any other man . " The effect ...
... least happy , " and as his fancy was quick , so likewise " were the products of it remote and new . 66 " He borrowed not of any other , and his imaginations were fuch as could not eafily " enter into any other man . " The effect ...
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... least for fome time , and he maintains it in the dedication of this play , that the drama required an al- ternative of comick and tragick scenes , and that it is neceffary to mitigate by alleviations . of merriment the preffure of ...
... least for fome time , and he maintains it in the dedication of this play , that the drama required an al- ternative of comick and tragick scenes , and that it is neceffary to mitigate by alleviations . of merriment the preffure of ...
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... least , that fuch diligence with fuch abilities must have fet penury at defiance . But in Dry- den's time the drama was very far from that univerfal approbation which it has now ob- tained . The playhouse was abhorred by the Puritans ...
... least , that fuch diligence with fuch abilities must have fet penury at defiance . But in Dry- den's time the drama was very far from that univerfal approbation which it has now ob- tained . The playhouse was abhorred by the Puritans ...
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... least once fufpected of writing more ; for in 1679 a paper of verfes , called An Effay on Satire , was fhewn about in manufcript , by which the earl of Rochefter , the dutchefs of Portsmouth , and others , were so much . provoked , that ...
... least once fufpected of writing more ; for in 1679 a paper of verfes , called An Effay on Satire , was fhewn about in manufcript , by which the earl of Rochefter , the dutchefs of Portsmouth , and others , were so much . provoked , that ...
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... least in the beginning of it , he was far from having it confined to himself . put great confidence in the prognostications of judicial aftrology . In the Appendix to the Life of Congreve is a narrative of fome of his predictions ...
... least in the beginning of it , he was far from having it confined to himself . put great confidence in the prognostications of judicial aftrology . In the Appendix to the Life of Congreve is a narrative of fome of his predictions ...
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