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... reputation ; for it was only by his reputation that he could be known , as a writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that ...
... reputation ; for it was only by his reputation that he could be known , as a writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that ...
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... reputation , by the transmission of Busby's scholars to the care first of Fell , and afterwards of Aldrich . Here he was dis- tinguished as a genius eminent among the eminent , and for friendship particularly intimate with Mr. Smith ...
... reputation , by the transmission of Busby's scholars to the care first of Fell , and afterwards of Aldrich . Here he was dis- tinguished as a genius eminent among the eminent , and for friendship particularly intimate with Mr. Smith ...
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... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and en- deavoured to persuade the publick that its approba- tion had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having first ...
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and en- deavoured to persuade the publick that its approba- tion had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having first ...
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