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... Tragedy . Ha ! who holds my conquering hand ? what power unknown , By magic thus transforms me to a ftatue , Senfelefs of all the faculties of life ? My blood runs back , I have no power to strike ; Call in our guards and bid ' em all ...
... Tragedy . Ha ! who holds my conquering hand ? what power unknown , By magic thus transforms me to a ftatue , Senfelefs of all the faculties of life ? My blood runs back , I have no power to strike ; Call in our guards and bid ' em all ...
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... , 1. Agrippina , Emprefs of Rome , a Tragedy , printed in izmo . London , 1639. Our author has Wood's Fafti Oxon . vol . i . p . 205 . B 4 followed followed Suetonius and Tacitus , and has tranflat- ed and THOMAS MAY .
... , 1. Agrippina , Emprefs of Rome , a Tragedy , printed in izmo . London , 1639. Our author has Wood's Fafti Oxon . vol . i . p . 205 . B 4 followed followed Suetonius and Tacitus , and has tranflat- ed and THOMAS MAY .
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... Tragedy , printed in 8vo . London , 1631 , and dedicated to Endymion Porter , Efq ; Our author in the con- texture of this Tragedy , has made ufe of the An- tigone of Sophocles , and the Thebais of Sencca . 3. Cleopatra , Queen of Egypt ...
... Tragedy , printed in 8vo . London , 1631 , and dedicated to Endymion Porter , Efq ; Our author in the con- texture of this Tragedy , has made ufe of the An- tigone of Sophocles , and the Thebais of Sencca . 3. Cleopatra , Queen of Egypt ...
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... Tragedy , printed 4to . Lond . 1640 , and dedicated to the Right Hon . Henry Lord Marquis of Dorchefter . This Drama was writ- ten by the admirable Hugo Grotius , published by him at Amfterdam 1635 , and dedicated to Vollius , Profeffor ...
... Tragedy , printed 4to . Lond . 1640 , and dedicated to the Right Hon . Henry Lord Marquis of Dorchefter . This Drama was writ- ten by the admirable Hugo Grotius , published by him at Amfterdam 1635 , and dedicated to Vollius , Profeffor ...
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... Tragedy , notwithstand- ing it ends fuccefsfully , and quotes for his autho- rity in fo doing , Æfchilus , Euripides , and even Vof- fius , in his own Art of Poetry , Some make it aQuefti- on , whether it be lawful to found a dramatic ...
... Tragedy , notwithstand- ing it ends fuccefsfully , and quotes for his autho- rity in fo doing , Æfchilus , Euripides , and even Vof- fius , in his own Art of Poetry , Some make it aQuefti- on , whether it be lawful to found a dramatic ...
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