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... write it , and in which there are some positions that the true author would perhaps not have pub- lished under his own name , and on which Mr. Savage afterwards reflected with no great satisfaction . The enumeration of the bad effects ...
... write it , and in which there are some positions that the true author would perhaps not have pub- lished under his own name , and on which Mr. Savage afterwards reflected with no great satisfaction . The enumeration of the bad effects ...
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... write a second tragedy upon the story of Sir Thomas Overbury , in which he preserved a few lines of his former play , but made a total alteration of the plan , added new incidents , and introduced new characters ; so that it was a new ...
... write a second tragedy upon the story of Sir Thomas Overbury , in which he preserved a few lines of his former play , but made a total alteration of the plan , added new incidents , and introduced new characters ; so that it was a new ...
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... writer he had this peculiarity , that he did not write his pieces first rudely and then correct them , but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar , that he could not write but ...
... writer he had this peculiarity , that he did not write his pieces first rudely and then correct them , but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar , that he could not write but ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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