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... performance was so much dis- approved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state ... performances ; it will be fit * poignant , painfully sharp . however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice ...
... performance was so much dis- approved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state ... performances ; it will be fit * poignant , painfully sharp . however to enumerate them , and to take especial notice ...
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... performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . It is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly judicious . I would rather praise ...
... performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . It is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly judicious . I would rather praise ...
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... performance , never testified any curiosity to see him , and who professed to have forgotten the terms on which he worked . The terms which Fenton uses are very mercantile : I think at * Dacier , Madame Anne Dacier ( 1651-1720 ) , a ...
... performance , never testified any curiosity to see him , and who professed to have forgotten the terms on which he worked . The terms which Fenton uses are very mercantile : I think at * Dacier , Madame Anne Dacier ( 1651-1720 ) , a ...
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