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... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shews such facility of composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as , since the name of Lopez de Vega , perhaps ...
... performance , which , though all Langbaine's charges of plagiarism should be allowed , shews such facility of composition , such readiness of language , and such copiousness of sentiment , as , since the name of Lopez de Vega , perhaps ...
Page 308
... performance no height of excellence can be expected from any mind , however fertile in itself , and however stored with acquisitions . He whose work is general and arbitrary , has the choice of his matter , and takes that which his ...
... performance no height of excellence can be expected from any mind , however fertile in itself , and however stored with acquisitions . He whose work is general and arbitrary , has the choice of his matter , and takes that which his ...
Page 418
... performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no publick employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to ...
... performance cannot be denied to be vigorous and elegant . Having yet no publick employment , he obtained ( in 1699 ) a pension of three hundred pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to ...
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