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... favour of Jonfon , by Charles the First , from an hundred marks to one hundred pounds a year , and a tierce of wine ; a revenue in thofe days not inade- quate to the conveniences of life . The fame year he published his Effay on ...
... favour of Jonfon , by Charles the First , from an hundred marks to one hundred pounds a year , and a tierce of wine ; a revenue in thofe days not inade- quate to the conveniences of life . The fame year he published his Effay on ...
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... favour of Dr. Percy , were at last ob- tained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to fatisfy all reasonable defire . 3 In the first Letter his obfervation is only general : " You do live , " fays he , in ...
... favour of Dr. Percy , were at last ob- tained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to fatisfy all reasonable defire . 3 In the first Letter his obfervation is only general : " You do live , " fays he , in ...
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... favours him , imputes its expulfion to refentment , because it fo much expofed the keeping part of the " town . 99 Oedipus ( 1679 ) is a tragedy formed by Dry- den and Lee , in conjunction , from the works . of Sophocles , Seneca , and ...
... favours him , imputes its expulfion to refentment , because it fo much expofed the keeping part of the " town . 99 Oedipus ( 1679 ) is a tragedy formed by Dry- den and Lee , in conjunction , from the works . of Sophocles , Seneca , and ...
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... favours , Dryden declared himself a convert to popery . This at any other time might have paffed with little cen- fure . Sir Kenelm Digby embraced popery ; the two Rainolds reciprocally converted one ano- another * ; and Chillingworth ...
... favours , Dryden declared himself a convert to popery . This at any other time might have paffed with little cen- fure . Sir Kenelm Digby embraced popery ; the two Rainolds reciprocally converted one ano- another * ; and Chillingworth ...
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... favour , or in mine . It is true , " Mr. D. will fuffer a little by it ; but at " leaft it will ferve to keep him in from other " extravagancies ; and if he gains little ho- " nour by this work , yet he cannot lofe fo " much by it as he ...
... favour , or in mine . It is true , " Mr. D. will fuffer a little by it ; but at " leaft it will ferve to keep him in from other " extravagancies ; and if he gains little ho- " nour by this work , yet he cannot lofe fo " much by it as he ...
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