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... play more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and no- thing therefore can be known beyond what cafual mention and uncertain tradition have fupplied . JOHN ...
... play more ample than can now be given . His contemporaries , however they reverenced his genius , left his life unwritten ; and no- thing therefore can be known beyond what cafual mention and uncertain tradition have fupplied . JOHN ...
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... play was exhi- bited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and revived ; but fince the plays are faid to be printed in the order in which they were written , from the dates of fome ...
... play was exhi- bited is not certainly known , because it was not printed till it was fome years afterwards altered and revived ; but fince the plays are faid to be printed in the order in which they were written , from the dates of fome ...
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... play he made his effay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with fufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the ...
... play he made his effay of dramatick rhyme , which he defends in his dedication , with fufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined with Sir Robert Howard in the ...
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... play is prefixed a very vehement defence of dramatic rhyme , in confutation of the preface to the Duke of Lerma , in which Sir Robert Howard had cenfured it . In 1667 he published Annus Mirabilis , the Year of Wonders , which may be ...
... play is prefixed a very vehement defence of dramatic rhyme , in confutation of the preface to the Duke of Lerma , in which Sir Robert Howard had cenfured it . In 1667 he published Annus Mirabilis , the Year of Wonders , which may be ...
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... plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to ... play , but was added when it was afterwards reprinted ; reprinted ; and as the Duke of Lerma did not DRY DE N.
... plays , had cenfured his opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to ... play , but was added when it was afterwards reprinted ; reprinted ; and as the Duke of Lerma did not DRY DE N.
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