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... confidered , that he who propofed to be an author , ought firft to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the reafon , no fel- lowship in the College . Why he was ex- * He went off to Trinity College , and was admitted to a ...
... confidered , that he who propofed to be an author , ought firft to be a ftudent . He obtained , whatever was the reafon , no fel- lowship in the College . Why he was ex- * He went off to Trinity College , and was admitted to a ...
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... confidered , cannot invade ; but pri- vation likewife certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been re- fused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that ...
... confidered , cannot invade ; but pri- vation likewife certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been re- fused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that ...
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... confidered , that where there is no difficulty there is no praife . t There feems to be , in the conduct of Sir Robert Howard and Dryden towards each other , fomething that is not now easily to be explained . Dryden , in his dedication ...
... confidered , that where there is no difficulty there is no praife . t There feems to be , in the conduct of Sir Robert Howard and Dryden towards each other , fomething that is not now easily to be explained . Dryden , in his dedication ...
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... confidered that " pleasure was not the only end of poesy , " and that even the inftructions of morality " were not fo wholly the business of a poet , " as that precepts and examples of piety were to be omitted ; for to leave that ...
... confidered that " pleasure was not the only end of poesy , " and that even the inftructions of morality " were not fo wholly the business of a poet , " as that precepts and examples of piety were to be omitted ; for to leave that ...
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... confidered as a very diverting en- tertainment . Cleomenes ( 1692 ) is a tragedy , only remark- able as it occafioned an incident related in the Guardian , and allufively mentioned by Dryden in his preface . As he came out from the re ...
... confidered as a very diverting en- tertainment . Cleomenes ( 1692 ) is a tragedy , only remark- able as it occafioned an incident related in the Guardian , and allufively mentioned by Dryden in his preface . As he came out from the re ...
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