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Page 56
... supposed to have been Dryden's ha- bitual phrases , or customary exclamations . Bayes , when he is to write , is blooded and purged this , as Lamotte relates himself to have heard , was the real practice of the poet , There were other ...
... supposed to have been Dryden's ha- bitual phrases , or customary exclamations . Bayes , when he is to write , is blooded and purged this , as Lamotte relates himself to have heard , was the real practice of the poet , There were other ...
Page 58
... supposed to have been fufficiently bufied by the compo- fition of eight - and - twenty pieces for the ftage , Dryden found room in the fame fpace for many other undertakings . But , how much foever he wrote , he was at least once ...
... supposed to have been fufficiently bufied by the compo- fition of eight - and - twenty pieces for the ftage , Dryden found room in the fame fpace for many other undertakings . But , how much foever he wrote , he was at least once ...
Page 61
... supposed that all the pro- vocation given by Dryden would be en- dured without refiftance or reply . Both his perfon and his party were expofed in their turns to the shafts of fatire , which , though neither fo well pointed nor perhaps ...
... supposed that all the pro- vocation given by Dryden would be en- dured without refiftance or reply . Both his perfon and his party were expofed in their turns to the shafts of fatire , which , though neither fo well pointed nor perhaps ...
Page 129
... supposed to have blafted his genius , to have driven out his works in a state of immaturity , and to have intercepted the full - blown elegance which longer growth would have fupplied . Poverty , like other rigid powers , is fome- times ...
... supposed to have blafted his genius , to have driven out his works in a state of immaturity , and to have intercepted the full - blown elegance which longer growth would have fupplied . Poverty , like other rigid powers , is fome- times ...
Page 379
... supposed very unexpert in the arts of converfation and practice of life , who without fortune or al- liance , by his usefulness and dexterity , be- came fecretary of state ; and who died at forty - feven , after having not only ftood ...
... supposed very unexpert in the arts of converfation and practice of life , who without fortune or al- liance , by his usefulness and dexterity , be- came fecretary of state ; and who died at forty - feven , after having not only ftood ...
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