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... kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity ; there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy and intricate , and the events take hold on ...
... kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity ; there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy and intricate , and the events take hold on ...
Page 37
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly , for since I inspected them many years have passed , but what remains upon my memory ...
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly , for since I inspected them many years have passed , but what remains upon my memory ...
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... kind this age has seen a most audacious ex- ample in the book entitled ' A Tale of a Tub . ' Had this writing been published in a pagan or popish nation , who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to the estab- lished religion ...
... kind this age has seen a most audacious ex- ample in the book entitled ' A Tale of a Tub . ' Had this writing been published in a pagan or popish nation , who are justly impatient of all indignity offered to the estab- lished religion ...
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... kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore being despised as a poet , was in time neglected as a physician ; his practice , which was once invidiously great , forsook ...
... kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character , corrupts all the rest by degrees . Blackmore being despised as a poet , was in time neglected as a physician ; his practice , which was once invidiously great , forsook ...
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... kind , " A True and Im- partial History of the Conspiracy against King William of Glorious Memory in the Year 1695. " This I have never seen , but suppose it is at least compiled with in- tegrity . He engaged likewise in theological ...
... kind , " A True and Im- partial History of the Conspiracy against King William of Glorious Memory in the Year 1695. " This I have never seen , but suppose it is at least compiled with in- tegrity . He engaged likewise in theological ...
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