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Page 269
... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shews such facility of composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as , since the name of Lopez de Vega , perhaps ...
... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shews such facility of composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as , since the name of Lopez de Vega , perhaps ...
Page 387
... against the late King , his present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to SPRAT 387.
... against the late King , his present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to SPRAT 387.
Page 429
... performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing the critick than of defending the poet . Addison , who was no stranger to the world , probably saw the selfishness of ...
... performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing the critick than of defending the poet . Addison , who was no stranger to the world , probably saw the selfishness of ...
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