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... produced Love for Love ; a comedy of nearer alliance to life , and exhibiting more real manners , than either of the former . The character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had ...
... produced Love for Love ; a comedy of nearer alliance to life , and exhibiting more real manners , than either of the former . The character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had ...
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... produced some encomiastic verses to Jervas , which certainly show his power as a poet ; but I have been told that they betray his ignorance of painting . He appears to have regarded Betterton with kindness and esteem ; and after his ...
... produced some encomiastic verses to Jervas , which certainly show his power as a poet ; but I have been told that they betray his ignorance of painting . He appears to have regarded Betterton with kindness and esteem ; and after his ...
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... produced in France , that the improbability of such a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous protestation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily ...
... produced in France , that the improbability of such a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous protestation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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