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... written his Arcades ; for while he lived at Horton he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the countess dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick ...
... written his Arcades ; for while he lived at Horton he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the countess dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick ...
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... written in less time than The Virgin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either ostentatiously or mournfully to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how short a warning he produced it . It was a temporary performance , written ...
... written in less time than The Virgin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either ostentatiously or mournfully to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how short a warning he produced it . It was a temporary performance , written ...
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... written in all the formalities of a legal process by the assistance , as is said , of Mr Fortescue , afterwards Master of the Rolls . Before these Miscellanies is a preface signed by Swift and Pope , but apparently written by Pope ; in ...
... written in all the formalities of a legal process by the assistance , as is said , of Mr Fortescue , afterwards Master of the Rolls . Before these Miscellanies is a preface signed by Swift and Pope , but apparently written by Pope ; in ...
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