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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 sellers spontaneously added a third hundred ...
... 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 sellers spontaneously added a third hundred ...
Page xxvi
... 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 ! 2 sellers spontaneously added a third the ...
... 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 ! 2 sellers spontaneously added a third the ...
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... play , the Naufragium Joculare . PEPYS , Diary , i . 193 . 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 . 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 College ...
... 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 College ...
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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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