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... written when he was ten years old ; and ' Constantia and Philetus , ' written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called ' Love's Riddle , ' though it was not published till he had been some time at ...
... written when he was ten years old ; and ' Constantia and Philetus , ' written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called ' Love's Riddle , ' though it was not published till he had been some time at ...
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... writing to a poet , he has interspersed many critical observations , of which some are common , and some perhaps ventured ... written in quatrains , or heroick stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the Gondibert of ...
... writing to a poet , he has interspersed many critical observations , of which some are common , and some perhaps ventured ... written in quatrains , or heroick stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the Gondibert of ...
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... written in seven weeks . Want of time was often his excuse , or perhaps shortness of time was his private boast in the form of an apology . It was written before the Conquest of Granada , but published after it . The design is to ...
... written in seven weeks . Want of time was often his excuse , or perhaps shortness of time was his private boast in the form of an apology . It was written before the Conquest of Granada , but published after it . The design is to ...
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