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... easily escape a manner — such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
... easily escape a manner — such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
Page 242
... easily selected and retained . Thus the description of Night in the Indian Emperor , and the rise and fall of empire in the Conquest of Granada , are more frequently repeated than any lines in All for Love , or Don Sebastian . To search ...
... easily selected and retained . Thus the description of Night in the Indian Emperor , and the rise and fall of empire in the Conquest of Granada , are more frequently repeated than any lines in All for Love , or Don Sebastian . To search ...
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... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; inquiry was awakened , and comprehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from this time to our own , life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; inquiry was awakened , and comprehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from this time to our own , life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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