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... written but printed in his thirteenth year , containing , with other poetical compositions , The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , written when he was ten years old ; and Constantia and Philetus , written two years after . While ...
... written but printed in his thirteenth year , containing , with other poetical compositions , The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , written when he was ten years old ; and Constantia and Philetus , written two years after . While ...
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... written in less time than The Royal Martyr ; though the author thought not fit , either ostentatiously or mournfully , to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how short a warning he produced it . It was a temporary perform- ance ...
... written in less time than The Royal Martyr ; though the author thought not fit , either ostentatiously or mournfully , to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how short a warning he produced it . It was a temporary perform- ance ...
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... written against the Papists , it would naturally at that time have friends and enemies ; and partly by the popularity which it ob- tained at first , and partly by the real power both of the serious and risible part , it continued long a ...
... written against the Papists , it would naturally at that time have friends and enemies ; and partly by the popularity which it ob- tained at first , and partly by the real power both of the serious and risible part , it continued long a ...
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