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... plays , which when close on eighty he could still recite by heart ; while at a still greater age he was able to translate Horace's Ars Poetica into blank verse almost entirely from his recollection of the original . Moreover , though ...
... plays , which when close on eighty he could still recite by heart ; while at a still greater age he was able to translate Horace's Ars Poetica into blank verse almost entirely from his recollection of the original . Moreover , though ...
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... plays ; and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology will publish it , but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous * . Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewhere printed 5 sellers spontaneously added a third ...
... plays ; and if I shall hereafter obtain a more correct chronology will publish it , but I do not yet know that my account is erroneous * . Dryden's Remarks on Rymer have been somewhere printed 5 sellers spontaneously added a third ...
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... play , the Naufragium Joculare . PEPYS , Diary , i . 193 . 8 He was Master of Trinity College 1631-1644 , when he was ejected for sending the College plate to the King . As Vice - Chancellor he ad- mitted Milton to the M.A. degree ...
... play , the Naufragium Joculare . PEPYS , Diary , i . 193 . 8 He was Master of Trinity College 1631-1644 , when he was ejected for sending the College plate to the King . As Vice - Chancellor he ad- mitted Milton to the M.A. degree ...
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... play'd Ere ' tis a play , and acted ere ' tis made . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 128 . In March , 1641-2 , the Prince of Wales . [ Charles II ] , in his twelfth year , visited Cambridge . A letter- writer tells how he went to Trinity ...
... play'd Ere ' tis a play , and acted ere ' tis made . ' Eng . Poets , vii . 128 . In March , 1641-2 , the Prince of Wales . [ Charles II ] , in his twelfth year , visited Cambridge . A letter- writer tells how he went to Trinity ...
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... play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface by observing how ...
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