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... kind of play , made up of a number of fpeeches from Ogilby's translation , connected with verfes of his .own . He perfuaded the upper boys to act this piece , which , from its curiosity , one would have been glad to have beheld . The ...
... kind of play , made up of a number of fpeeches from Ogilby's translation , connected with verfes of his .own . He perfuaded the upper boys to act this piece , which , from its curiosity , one would have been glad to have beheld . The ...
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... kind ; and their names fufficiently known , but not grown trite or common by too frè- quent ufage . POPE was a most excellent -IMPROVER , if no great original INVENTOR ; for , as we have feen what an elegant fuper- ftructure he has ...
... kind ; and their names fufficiently known , but not grown trite or common by too frè- quent ufage . POPE was a most excellent -IMPROVER , if no great original INVENTOR ; for , as we have feen what an elegant fuper- ftructure he has ...
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... kind of fullen fatisfaction , into the flood below . This catastrophe muft furely be allowed to be well adapted to the fubject , the perfon , and the fcene ; in a word , to all the horrors with which the poem abounds . And is therefore ...
... kind of fullen fatisfaction , into the flood below . This catastrophe muft furely be allowed to be well adapted to the fubject , the perfon , and the fcene ; in a word , to all the horrors with which the poem abounds . And is therefore ...
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