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... published the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther , " in con- junction with Mr. Montague . There is a story of great pain suffered , and of tears shed , on this occasion , by Dryden , who thought ...
... published the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther , " in con- junction with Mr. Montague . There is a story of great pain suffered , and of tears shed , on this occasion , by Dryden , who thought ...
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... published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon ...
... published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise , and ended with the " Nut - brown Maid . " The battle of Ramillies soon ...
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... published , written , as it happened , by any wit of the party , and sometimes , as is said , by Mrs. Manley . Some are owned by Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verses to Godolphin upon the loss of his place , was written by ...
... published , written , as it happened , by any wit of the party , and sometimes , as is said , by Mrs. Manley . Some are owned by Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verses to Godolphin upon the loss of his place , was written by ...
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... published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of his Miscellaneous Poems , yet he added nothing to them , but lived on in literary in- dolence ; engaged in no ...
... published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of his Miscellaneous Poems , yet he added nothing to them , but lived on in literary in- dolence ; engaged in no ...
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... published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches and starts , and in such oc- casional uncertain hours , as his profession afforded , and for the greatest part in coffee - houses , or ...
... published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches and starts , and in such oc- casional uncertain hours , as his profession afforded , and for the greatest part in coffee - houses , or ...
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