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... pleasure in alliance with vice , and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated . The stage found other advocates , and the dispute was pro- tracted through ten years : but at last Comedy grew more modest ; and ...
... pleasure in alliance with vice , and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated . The stage found other advocates , and the dispute was pro- tracted through ten years : but at last Comedy grew more modest ; and ...
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... pleasure , and the attention is led on through a long succession of varied excellence to the original position , the fundamental principle of wisdom and of virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought ...
... pleasure , and the attention is led on through a long succession of varied excellence to the original position , the fundamental principle of wisdom and of virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought ...
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... pleasure , he published The Wanderer , a moral poem , of which the design is comprised in these lines : I fly all public care , all venal strife , To try the still , compar'd with active , life ; To prove , by these , the sons of men ...
... pleasure , he published The Wanderer , a moral poem , of which the design is comprised in these lines : I fly all public care , all venal strife , To try the still , compar'd with active , life ; To prove , by these , the sons of men ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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