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... Dramatic Poet is the moft pleafing , he is at the fame Time the most pun- gent Moralift , and a more powerful Reformer of Vice and Folly than the profest Satirift himself . What are the folemn Sermons of Se- neca , the laughing Reproofs ...
... Dramatic Poet is the moft pleafing , he is at the fame Time the most pun- gent Moralift , and a more powerful Reformer of Vice and Folly than the profest Satirift himself . What are the folemn Sermons of Se- neca , the laughing Reproofs ...
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An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival ladies. The Indian Queen. The Indian Emperor: or, the ... Drama tick Poems which yield not to those of any foreign Na- tion , and which deferve all Laurels but the English ...
An essay of dramatick poesie. The wild gallant. The rival ladies. The Indian Queen. The Indian Emperor: or, the ... Drama tick Poems which yield not to those of any foreign Na- tion , and which deferve all Laurels but the English ...
Page 209
... Drama- tick Paftoral , but I cannot upon examination find that Fletcher has borrowed a fingle fentiment or expreffion from any of them , except the name of the Faithful Shepherdefs from the Paftor Fido . Seward . 78 The failing rack ...
... Drama- tick Paftoral , but I cannot upon examination find that Fletcher has borrowed a fingle fentiment or expreffion from any of them , except the name of the Faithful Shepherdefs from the Paftor Fido . Seward . 78 The failing rack ...
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