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... easily found , if even from them could be obtained the neceffary information . The time at which his firft play was exhi- bited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and revived ...
... easily found , if even from them could be obtained the neceffary information . The time at which his firft play was exhi- bited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and revived ...
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... easily to be explained . Dryden , in his dedication to the earl of Orrery , had defended dramatic rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on ...
... easily to be explained . Dryden , in his dedication to the earl of Orrery , had defended dramatic rhyme ; and Howard , in the preface to a collection of plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on ...
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... easily deceive . He might have ob- ferved , that what is good only because it pleafes , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marr - all ( 1668 ) is a comedy , published without preface or dedication ...
... easily deceive . He might have ob- ferved , that what is good only because it pleafes , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marr - all ( 1668 ) is a comedy , published without preface or dedication ...
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... clotted " nonsense at once . " Here is perhaps a fufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of republication , VOL . II . C and and is not easily to be found , it may DRY D E N. 19.
... clotted " nonsense at once . " Here is perhaps a fufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of republication , VOL . II . C and and is not easily to be found , it may DRY D E N. 19.
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Samuel Johnson. and is not easily to be found , it may gratify curiofity to quote it more largely . Whene'er the bleeds , He no feverer a damnation needs , That dares pronounce the fentence of her death , Than the infection that attends ...
Samuel Johnson. and is not easily to be found , it may gratify curiofity to quote it more largely . Whene'er the bleeds , He no feverer a damnation needs , That dares pronounce the fentence of her death , Than the infection that attends ...
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