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... pleasure of fretting Dryden ; for they were both speedily preferred . Montague , indeed , obtained the first notice , with some degree of dis- content , as it seems , in Prior , who probably knew that his own part of the performance was ...
... pleasure of fretting Dryden ; for they were both speedily preferred . Montague , indeed , obtained the first notice , with some degree of dis- content , as it seems , in Prior , who probably knew that his own part of the performance was ...
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... pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work ...
... pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work ...
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... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called " In- cognita , or Love and Duty reconciled : " it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is , indeed , for such a time of life ...
... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called " In- cognita , or Love and Duty reconciled : " it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is , indeed , for such a time of life ...
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... pleasure in alliance with vice , and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated . The stage found other advocates , and the dispute was pro- tracted through ten years ; but at last comedy grew more modest , and ...
... pleasure in alliance with vice , and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated . The stage found other advocates , and the dispute was pro- tracted through ten years ; but at last comedy grew more modest , and ...
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... pleasure , and as he was not deterred by censure he was not satiated with praise . He deviated , however , sometimes into other tracks of literature , and condescended to entertain his readers with plain prose . When the " Spectator ...
... pleasure , and as he was not deterred by censure he was not satiated with praise . He deviated , however , sometimes into other tracks of literature , and condescended to entertain his readers with plain prose . When the " Spectator ...
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