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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. OF OTWAY F THOMAS OTWAY , one of the first names in the 1 English drama ' , little is known 2 ; nor is there any part of that little which his biographer can take pleasure in relating . He was ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. OF OTWAY F THOMAS OTWAY , one of the first names in the 1 English drama ' , little is known 2 ; nor is there any part of that little which his biographer can take pleasure in relating . He was ...
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... Otway did not prosper in his military character ; for he soon left his commission behind him , whatever was the reason , and came back to London in extreme indigence2 , which Rochester mentions with merciless insolence in the Session of ...
... Otway did not prosper in his military character ; for he soon left his commission behind him , whatever was the reason , and came back to London in extreme indigence2 , which Rochester mentions with merciless insolence in the Session of ...
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... Otway . ' GILDON , The Laws of Poetry , 1721 , p . 211 . Nature is there , which is the greatest beauty . ' A Parallel of Poetry and Painting ( 1695 ) , Works , xvii . 326 ; ante , OTWAY , 15 . 5 In the Dedication of The Spanish Friar ...
... Otway . ' GILDON , The Laws of Poetry , 1721 , p . 211 . Nature is there , which is the greatest beauty . ' A Parallel of Poetry and Painting ( 1695 ) , Works , xvii . 326 ; ante , OTWAY , 15 . 5 In the Dedication of The Spanish Friar ...
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