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... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of his Cato , and Pope of his Essay on Criticism . In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required him ...
Page 262
... performance , and therefore he was engaged to contribute something , whatever it might be , to many publications . He prefixed the Life of Polybius to the translation of Sir Henry Sheers ; and those of Lucian and Plutarch to versions of ...
... performance , and therefore he was engaged to contribute something , whatever it might be , to many publications . He prefixed the Life of Polybius to the translation of Sir Henry Sheers ; and those of Lucian and Plutarch to versions of ...
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... performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden . It was said of a dispute between two mathe ...
... performance . The different manner and effect with which critical knowledge may be conveyed , was perhaps never more clearly exemplified than in the performances of Rymer and Dryden . It was said of a dispute between two mathe ...
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