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... publick , or perhaps expecting a second revolution , he produced Don Sebastian in 1690 ; and in the next four years four dramas more . In 1693 appeared a new version of Juvenal and Persius . Of Juvenal he translated the first , third ...
... publick , or perhaps expecting a second revolution , he produced Don Sebastian in 1690 ; and in the next four years four dramas more . In 1693 appeared a new version of Juvenal and Persius . Of Juvenal he translated the first , third ...
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... publick has an interest ; and what happens to them of good or evil , the poets have always considered as business for the Muse . But after so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges , he must be highly ...
... publick has an interest ; and what happens to them of good or evil , the poets have always considered as business for the Muse . But after so many inauguratory gratulations , nuptial hymns , and funeral dirges , he must be highly ...
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... publick , that before it was re- printed it rose to five times its price . When he returned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a meanness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he had been reduced , he found his old ...
... publick , that before it was re- printed it rose to five times its price . When he returned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a meanness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he had been reduced , he found his old ...
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