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... not totally forgotten when his reputation raised him enemies . The fame year he praised the new king in a fecond poem on his restoration . In the ASTREA was the line , ΙΟ An 1 An horrid stillness firft invades the ear , And 4 DRYDEN .
... not totally forgotten when his reputation raised him enemies . The fame year he praised the new king in a fecond poem on his restoration . In the ASTREA was the line , ΙΟ An 1 An horrid stillness firft invades the ear , And 4 DRYDEN .
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... fecond part of the Conqueft of Granada , Dryden indulges his favourite pleasure of difcrediting his prede- ceffors ; and this Epilogue he has defended by a long poftfcript . He had promised fecond dialogue , in which he should more ...
... fecond part of the Conqueft of Granada , Dryden indulges his favourite pleasure of difcrediting his prede- ceffors ; and this Epilogue he has defended by a long poftfcript . He had promised fecond dialogue , in which he should more ...
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... fecond , he tells him that Al- manzor is not more copied from Achilles than from Ancient Piftol . But I am , ' 66 fays he , ftrangely mistaken if I have not " feen this very Almanzar of yours in fome 45 difguife about this town , and ...
... fecond , he tells him that Al- manzor is not more copied from Achilles than from Ancient Piftol . But I am , ' 66 fays he , ftrangely mistaken if I have not " feen this very Almanzar of yours in fome 45 difguife about this town , and ...
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... their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epi logue , to make his poetry not less destructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated D 3 • the the Spartans . This play was written in the fecond DRY DE N. 37.
... their enemies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epi logue , to make his poetry not less destructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated D 3 • the the Spartans . This play was written in the fecond DRY DE N. 37.
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... fecond Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Creffida , is a play altered from Shakspeare ; but fo altered that even in Langbaine's opinion , the laft fcene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of ...
... fecond Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Creffida , is a play altered from Shakspeare ; but fo altered that even in Langbaine's opinion , the laft fcene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of ...
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