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... Against those that accused him of plagiarifm he alleges a favourable expreffion of the king : " He " only defired that they , who accufe me of " thefts , would steal him plays like mine ; " and then relates how much labour he spends in ...
... Against those that accused him of plagiarifm he alleges a favourable expreffion of the king : " He " only defired that they , who accufe me of " thefts , would steal him plays like mine ; " and then relates how much labour he spends in ...
Page 39
... against the opinion , as the author fays , of the beft judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he D. 4 finds finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment DRY D E N. 39.
... against the opinion , as the author fays , of the beft judges . It is dedicated , in a very elegant addrefs , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he D. 4 finds finds an opportunity for his ufual complaint of hard treatment DRY D E N. 39.
Page 40
... against their ene- mies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated the Spartans . This play was written in the fecond Dutch war in 1673 ...
... against their ene- mies ; to whom he hopes , as he declares in his Epilogue , to make his poetry not lefs deftructive than that by which Tyrtæus of old animated the Spartans . This play was written in the fecond Dutch war in 1673 ...
Page 41
... against the Papifts , it would natu- rally at that time have friends and enemies ; and partly by the popularity which it ob- tained at first , and partly by the real power both of the ferious and rifible part , it conti- nued long a ...
... against the Papifts , it would natu- rally at that time have friends and enemies ; and partly by the popularity which it ob- tained at first , and partly by the real power both of the ferious and rifible part , it conti- nued long a ...
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... produced the controverfy . Albion and Albanius ( 1685 ) is a musical drama or opera , written , like the Duke of Guife , against the Republicans . With what fuccefs fuccefs it found * was performed , I have not 42 DRY DE N.
... produced the controverfy . Albion and Albanius ( 1685 ) is a musical drama or opera , written , like the Duke of Guife , against the Republicans . With what fuccefs fuccefs it found * was performed , I have not 42 DRY DE N.
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