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... produced " Love for Love , " a comedy of nearer alliance to life , and exhibiting more real manners than either of the former . The character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William ...
... produced " Love for Love , " a comedy of nearer alliance to life , and exhibiting more real manners than either of the former . The character of Foresight was then common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William ...
Page 167
... produced in France , that the improbability of such a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous protestation pre- fixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremp- torily ...
... produced in France , that the improbability of such a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous protestation pre- fixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremp- torily ...
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... produced this piece at twenty , and never afterwards excelled it : he that delights himself with observing that such powers may be soon at- tained , cannot but grieve to think that life was ever at a stand . To mention the particular ...
... produced this piece at twenty , and never afterwards excelled it : he that delights himself with observing that such powers may be soon at- tained , cannot but grieve to think that life was ever at a stand . To mention the particular ...
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