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... remark . Having gone through the first act , he fays , " To conclude this act with " the most rumbling piece of nonfenfe spoken 66 yet , 66 66 " To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles con- " form , " Which back'd with thunder do but ...
... remark . Having gone through the first act , he fays , " To conclude this act with " the most rumbling piece of nonfenfe spoken 66 yet , 66 66 " To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles con- " form , " Which back'd with thunder do but ...
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... remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shak- fpeare's plots , he fays , are in the hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of Beaumont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonfon only made them for himfelf . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
... remarks on the Fathers of the English drama . Shak- fpeare's plots , he fays , are in the hundred novels of Cinthio ; thofe of Beaumont and Fletcher in Spanish Stories ; Jonfon only made them for himfelf . His criticisms upon tragedy ...
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... remarks . But let honest credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last ob- tained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough ...
... remarks . But let honest credulity beware of receiving characters from contemporary writers . Clifford's remarks , by the favour of Dr. Percy , were at last ob- tained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough ...
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... fenfe . " In the Empress of Morocco were these << lines : " I'll travel then to fome remoter sphere , " Till I find out new worlds , and crown you there . On On which Dryden made this remark : " I believe DRYDEN . 31.
... fenfe . " In the Empress of Morocco were these << lines : " I'll travel then to fome remoter sphere , " Till I find out new worlds , and crown you there . On On which Dryden made this remark : " I believe DRYDEN . 31.
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Samuel Johnson. On which Dryden made this remark : " I believe our learned author takes a . " fphere for a country ; the fphere of Mo- " rocco , as if Morocco were the globe of " earth and water ; but a globe is no sphere " neither , by ...
Samuel Johnson. On which Dryden made this remark : " I believe our learned author takes a . " fphere for a country ; the fphere of Mo- " rocco , as if Morocco were the globe of " earth and water ; but a globe is no sphere " neither , by ...
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