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Page 273
... occasion to extend the time of the fable longer than the mere representation takes up ; all might have paffed in the compafs of three hours from the morning , with a description of which the play opens ; if the poet , in the fourth ...
... occasion to extend the time of the fable longer than the mere representation takes up ; all might have paffed in the compafs of three hours from the morning , with a description of which the play opens ; if the poet , in the fourth ...
Page 306
... occasion to obferve , that this fpecies of writing , beautiful as it is , has not been much cultivated among us . Drayton , no defpica- ble genius , attempted to revive it , and has left us fome good fubjects , tho ' not very art- fully ...
... occasion to obferve , that this fpecies of writing , beautiful as it is , has not been much cultivated among us . Drayton , no defpica- ble genius , attempted to revive it , and has left us fome good fubjects , tho ' not very art- fully ...
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