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... The structure of dramatic poems was then not generally understood . Audiences applauded by instinct ; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance . A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in 1631-1700 157 BELIEF IN ASTROLOGY.
... The structure of dramatic poems was then not generally understood . Audiences applauded by instinct ; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance . A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in 1631-1700 157 BELIEF IN ASTROLOGY.
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... pleased than be taught , Cato is read , and the critic is neglected . Flushed with consciousness of these detections of absurdity in the conduct , he afterwards attacked the sentiments of Cato ; but he then amused himself with petty ...
... pleased than be taught , Cato is read , and the critic is neglected . Flushed with consciousness of these detections of absurdity in the conduct , he afterwards attacked the sentiments of Cato ; but he then amused himself with petty ...
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... pleased himself with counting the profits , and perhaps imagined that the theatrical reputation which he was about to acquire would be equivalent to all that he had lost by the death of his patroness . He did not , in confidence of his ...
... pleased himself with counting the profits , and perhaps imagined that the theatrical reputation which he was about to acquire would be equivalent to all that he had lost by the death of his patroness . He did not , in confidence of his ...
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