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... supposed to want by those who , having already found them in later books , do not know or enquire who produced them first . This treatment is unjust . Let not the original author lose by his imitators . Praise however should be due ...
... supposed to want by those who , having already found them in later books , do not know or enquire who produced them first . This treatment is unjust . Let not the original author lose by his imitators . Praise however should be due ...
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... supposed to have been sufficiently busied by the composition of eight and twenty pieces for the stage , Dryden found room in the same space for many other undertakings . But , how much soever he wrote , he was at least once suspected of ...
... supposed to have been sufficiently busied by the composition of eight and twenty pieces for the stage , Dryden found room in the same space for many other undertakings . But , how much soever he wrote , he was at least once suspected of ...
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... supposed to have amused himself by writing his two tragedies . He died February 24 , 1720-21 . He was thrice married ; by his two first wives he had no children ; by his third , who was the daughter of king James by the countess of ...
... supposed to have amused himself by writing his two tragedies . He died February 24 , 1720-21 . He was thrice married ; by his two first wives he had no children ; by his third , who was the daughter of king James by the countess of ...
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