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... written , as several know , some years before it was acted . When I wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was ...
... written , as several know , some years before it was acted . When I wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was ...
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... written twice over ; I gave him a clean transcript , which he sent some time afterwards to me for the press , with almost every line written twice over a second time . " His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their ...
... written twice over ; I gave him a clean transcript , which he sent some time afterwards to me for the press , with almost every line written twice over a second time . " His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their ...
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... written to pay court to Pope , on a subject which he either did not under- stand or willingly misrepresented ; and is little more than an improvement , or rather expansion , of a fragment which Pope printed in a Miscellany long before ...
... written to pay court to Pope , on a subject which he either did not under- stand or willingly misrepresented ; and is little more than an improvement , or rather expansion , of a fragment which Pope printed in a Miscellany long before ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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