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... collected , that in 1663 , in the thirty - fecond year of his life , he Commenced a writer for the ftage ; compelled undoubt- edly by neceffity , for he appears never to have loved that exercife of his genius , or to have much pleafed ...
... collected , that in 1663 , in the thirty - fecond year of his life , he Commenced a writer for the ftage ; compelled undoubt- edly by neceffity , for he appears never to have loved that exercife of his genius , or to have much pleafed ...
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... collecting them , who died forgotten in an hofpital , and whofe latter years were spent in contriving fhows for fairs , and car- rying an elegy or epithalamium , of which the beginning and end were occasionally varied , but the ...
... collecting them , who died forgotten in an hofpital , and whofe latter years were spent in contriving fhows for fairs , and car- rying an elegy or epithalamium , of which the beginning and end were occasionally varied , but the ...
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... collected as it can from other teftimonies , and particularly from thofe notices which Dryden has very libe rally given us of himself . The modefty which made him fo flow to advance , and fo eafy to be repulfed , was certainly no ...
... collected as it can from other teftimonies , and particularly from thofe notices which Dryden has very libe rally given us of himself . The modefty which made him fo flow to advance , and fo eafy to be repulfed , was certainly no ...
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... collected , and negligently fcattered . Yet it cannot be faid that his genius is ever unprovided of matter , or that his fancy languishes in penury of ideas . His works abound with knowledge , and sparkle with illuftrations . There is ...
... collected , and negligently fcattered . Yet it cannot be faid that his genius is ever unprovided of matter , or that his fancy languishes in penury of ideas . His works abound with knowledge , and sparkle with illuftrations . There is ...
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... collected all his powers ; and after this he did not of- ten bring upon his anvil fuch stubborn and unmalleable thoughts ; but as a fpecimen of his abilities to unite the most unfociable mat- ter , he has concluded with lines , of which ...
... collected all his powers ; and after this he did not of- ten bring upon his anvil fuch stubborn and unmalleable thoughts ; but as a fpecimen of his abilities to unite the most unfociable mat- ter , he has concluded with lines , of which ...
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