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... appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on fictiti- ous fubjects or public occafions . He pro- bably confidered , that he who propofed to be an author , ought firft to be a ftudent ...
... appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his early wit either on fictiti- ous fubjects or public occafions . He pro- bably confidered , that he who propofed to be an author , ought firft to be a ftudent ...
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... appears never to have loved that exercife of his genius , or to have much pleafed himself with his own dramas . Of the ftage , when he had once invaded it , he kept poffeffion for many years ; not indeed without the competition of ...
... appears never to have loved that exercife of his genius , or to have much pleafed himself with his own dramas . Of the ftage , when he had once invaded it , he kept poffeffion for many years ; not indeed without the competition of ...
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... appears , and which is yet fufficiently defective to vindicate the criticks . I wish that there were no neceffity of fol- lowing the progrefs of his theatrical fame , or tracing the meanders of his mind through the whole series of his ...
... appears , and which is yet fufficiently defective to vindicate the criticks . I wish that there were no neceffity of fol- lowing the progrefs of his theatrical fame , or tracing the meanders of his mind through the whole series of his ...
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... appears a ftrange in- confiftency ; but Langbaine affords fome help , by relating that the answer to Howard was not published in the first edition of the play , but was added when it was afterwards reprinted ; reprinted ; and as the ...
... appears a ftrange in- confiftency ; but Langbaine affords fome help , by relating that the answer to Howard was not published in the first edition of the play , but was added when it was afterwards reprinted ; reprinted ; and as the ...
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Samuel Johnson. reprinted ; and as the Duke of Lerma did not appear till 1668 , the fame year in which the dialogue was published , there was time enough for enmity to grow up between au- thors , who , writing both for the theatre , were ...
Samuel Johnson. reprinted ; and as the Duke of Lerma did not appear till 1668 , the fame year in which the dialogue was published , there was time enough for enmity to grow up between au- thors , who , writing both for the theatre , were ...
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