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OTWAY OF THOMAS OTWAY , one of the first names in the English drama , little is known ; nor is there any part of that little which his biographer can take pleasure in relating . He was born at Trottin in Sussex , March 3 , 1651 , the ...
OTWAY OF THOMAS OTWAY , one of the first names in the English drama , little is known ; nor is there any part of that little which his biographer can take pleasure in relating . He was born at Trottin in Sussex , March 3 , 1651 , the ...
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In this part of his life it was that he was known to Clarendon , among the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known so little to his advantage , that they who read his character will not much ...
In this part of his life it was that he was known to Clarendon , among the rest of the men who were eminent in that age for genius and literature ; but known so little to his advantage , that they who read his character will not much ...
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He was very little known till he had obtained a rich wife in the city . ' He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - and- twenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in ...
He was very little known till he had obtained a rich wife in the city . ' He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - and- twenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in ...
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