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Page 104
... reputation and price of the copy still ad- vanced , till the Revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with ...
... reputation and price of the copy still ad- vanced , till the Revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with ...
Page 269
... reputation , that for some time a play was considered as less likely to be well received , if some of his verses did not introduce it . The price of a prologue was two guineas , till being asked to write one for Mr. Southern , he ...
... reputation , that for some time a play was considered as less likely to be well received , if some of his verses did not introduce it . The price of a prologue was two guineas , till being asked to write one for Mr. Southern , he ...
Page 271
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and en- deavoured to persuade the publick that its approba- tion had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having first ...
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and en- deavoured to persuade the publick that its approba- tion had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having first ...
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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