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... write them , preserved them from destruction . A scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced to write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is seldom , when people are necessitated to it . I have known men row ...
... write them , preserved them from destruction . A scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced to write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is seldom , when people are necessitated to it . I have known men row ...
Page 256
... write the dedication felt no pain in writing the preface . Aureng Zebe is a tragedy founded on the actions of a great prince then reigning , but over nations not likely to employ their criticks upon the transactions of the English stage ...
... write the dedication felt no pain in writing the preface . Aureng Zebe is a tragedy founded on the actions of a great prince then reigning , but over nations not likely to employ their criticks upon the transactions of the English stage ...
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... writer , that , when he had taken his resolution , or made his plan for what he designed to write , he would walk about a room , and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down , and attend to ...
... writer , that , when he had taken his resolution , or made his plan for what he designed to write , he would walk about a room , and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down , and attend to ...
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