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... discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the beft authority for his plays , and , if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chrono- logy , I logy ...
... discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine , as the beft authority for his plays , and , if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chrono- logy , I logy ...
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... discovery of occult resemblances , in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ran- facked for illuftrations ...
... discovery of occult resemblances , in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ran- facked for illuftrations ...
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... discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to fhare . DONNE . THEIR thoughts and expreffions were fometimes groffly abfurd , and fuch as no figures or licence can reconcile tọ the un ...
... discovery , With whom more venturers might boldly dare Venture their stakes , with him in joy to fhare . DONNE . THEIR thoughts and expreffions were fometimes groffly abfurd , and fuch as no figures or licence can reconcile tọ the un ...
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... discovered that any ftaff was too lyrical for an heroick poem ; but this feems to have been known before by May and Sandys , the tranflators of the Pharfalia and the Metamorphofes . www 1 In 1 1 Ca In the Davideis are fome hemiftichs ...
... discovered that any ftaff was too lyrical for an heroick poem ; but this feems to have been known before by May and Sandys , the tranflators of the Pharfalia and the Metamorphofes . www 1 In 1 1 Ca In the Davideis are fome hemiftichs ...
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... carrying on the king's correfpondence ; and , as he fays , difcharged this office with great fafety to the royalifts and being accidentally : H 2 dif T discovered by the adverse party's know- ledge of Mr. DEN HA M. 99.
... carrying on the king's correfpondence ; and , as he fays , difcharged this office with great fafety to the royalifts and being accidentally : H 2 dif T discovered by the adverse party's know- ledge of Mr. DEN HA M. 99.
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