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... published the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther , " in conjunction with Mr. Montague . There is a story of great pain suffered , and of tears shed , on this occasion , by Dryden , who Martin in ...
... published the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther , " in conjunction with Mr. Montague . There is a story of great pain suffered , and of tears shed , on this occasion , by Dryden , who Martin in ...
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... published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased pa- tron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon ...
... published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased pa- tron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the Col- lege Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon ...
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... published , written , as it happened , by any wit of the party , and sometimes , as is said , by Mrs. Manley . Some are owned by Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verses to Godolphin upon the loss of his place , was written by ...
... published , written , as it happened , by any wit of the party , and sometimes , as is said , by Mrs. Manley . Some are owned by Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verses to Godolphin upon the loss of his place , was written by ...
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... an opinion held by them in common with the church of Rome ; and Prynne published " Histrio - Mastix , " a huge volume , in which stage - plays were censured . The outrages and crimes of the puritans brought afterwards their CONGREVE . 29.
... an opinion held by them in common with the church of Rome ; and Prynne published " Histrio - Mastix , " a huge volume , in which stage - plays were censured . The outrages and crimes of the puritans brought afterwards their CONGREVE . 29.
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... published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of his Miscellaneous Poems , yet he added nothing to them , but lived on in literary indolence ; engaged in no ...
... published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of his Miscellaneous Poems , yet he added nothing to them , but lived on in literary indolence ; engaged in no ...
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