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... plan because it is left imperfect ; 66 Alma " iş imperfect because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates PRIOR . 23.
... plan because it is left imperfect ; 66 Alma " iş imperfect because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates PRIOR . 23.
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... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tissues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigram ...
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tissues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigram ...
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... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor in- dulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness ; he has no careless lines , or entangled senti- ' ments ; his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded ...
... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor in- dulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness ; he has no careless lines , or entangled senti- ' ments ; his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded ...
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... never had seen such a first play ; but they found it deficient in some things necessary to the success of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , pro- bably of ...
... never had seen such a first play ; but they found it deficient in some things necessary to the success of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , pro- bably of ...
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... never make him suspected for a Puritan ; he therefore ( 1698 ) published " A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indignation . He was formed ...
... never make him suspected for a Puritan ; he therefore ( 1698 ) published " A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indignation . He was formed ...
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