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... poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his con- temporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and ' Naufra- gium Joculare , ' a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models : for it ...
... poetical dedication to Sir Kenelm Digby ; of whose acquaintance all his con- temporaries seem to have been ambitious ; and ' Naufra- gium Joculare , ' a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ancient models : for it ...
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... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
... poetical power . His Sacred Poems do not please like some of his other works ; but before the fatal fifty - five , had he written on the same subjects , his success would hardly have been better . It has been the frequent lamentation of ...
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... poetical craft the absence of poetical art : that such an author is humbly contented to raise men's passions by a plot without doors , since he despairs of doing it by that which he brings upon the stage . That party and passion , and ...
... poetical craft the absence of poetical art : that such an author is humbly contented to raise men's passions by a plot without doors , since he despairs of doing it by that which he brings upon the stage . That party and passion , and ...
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