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... writing and publishing is not always the fame ; nor can the first editions be easily found , if even from them could ... writer for the ftage ; compelled undoubt- edly by neceffity , for he appears never to have loved that exercife of ...
... writing and publishing is not always the fame ; nor can the first editions be easily found , if even from them could ... writer for the ftage ; compelled undoubt- edly by neceffity , for he appears never to have loved that exercife of ...
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... writer and a statesman . In this 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 ...
... writer and a statesman . In this 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 ...
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... writing to a poet , he has interspersed many critical obfervations , of which fome are common , and fome perhaps ventured without much confideration . He began , even now , to exercife the domination of confcious genius , by ...
... writing to a poet , he has interspersed many critical obfervations , of which fome are common , and fome perhaps ventured without much confideration . He began , even now , to exercife the domination of confcious genius , by ...
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... writing both for the theatre , were naturally rivals . મા He was now fo much distinguished , that in 1668 he fucceeded Sir William Davenant as poet - laureat . The falary of the laureat had been raifed in favour of Jonfon , by Charles ...
... writing both for the theatre , were naturally rivals . મા He was now fo much distinguished , that in 1668 he fucceeded Sir William Davenant as poet - laureat . The falary of the laureat had been raifed in favour of Jonfon , by Charles ...
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... writing nonfenfe for them . Fools they " will be in fpite of him . His King , his two Empreffes , his villain , and his fub - villain , 66 nay his hero , have all a certain natural " caft of the father - their folly was born " and bred ...
... writing nonfenfe for them . Fools they " will be in fpite of him . His King , his two Empreffes , his villain , and his fub - villain , 66 nay his hero , have all a certain natural " caft of the father - their folly was born " and bred ...
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