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... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to persuade the public that its approbation had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having [ 1673 ] ...
... reputation of Dryden , took Settle into his protection , and endeavoured to persuade the public that its approbation had been to that time misplaced . Settle was a while in high reputation : his Empress of Morocco , having [ 1673 ] ...
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... reputation ; though it must certainly have been with farther views that he prevailed upon himself to attempt a species of writing of which all the topics had been long before exhausted , and which was made at once difficult by the ...
... reputation ; though it must certainly have been with farther views that he prevailed upon himself to attempt a species of writing of which all the topics had been long before exhausted , and which was made at once difficult by the ...
Page 294
... reputation , are always industrious to swell his works by uniting his worst productions with his best . In the execution of this scheme , however , he proceeded but slowly , and probably only employed himself upon it when he could find ...
... reputation , are always industrious to swell his works by uniting his worst productions with his best . In the execution of this scheme , however , he proceeded but slowly , and probably only employed himself upon it when he could find ...
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