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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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... in common with the church of Rome ; and Prynne published " Histrio - Mastix , " a huge volume , in which stage - plays were censured . The outrages and crimes of the puritans brought afterwards their whole CONGREVE . 23.
... in common with the church of Rome ; and Prynne published " Histrio - Mastix , " a huge volume , in which stage - plays were censured . The outrages and crimes of the puritans brought afterwards their whole CONGREVE . 23.
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... published " A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with ...
... published " A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with ...
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