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... roman- tic tragedies of Beaumont and Fletcher . In this play and in An Evening's Love Dryden made his first essay at ... Romans , with which he was but superficially acquainted , as being little adapted to delight modern audiences , or ...
... roman- tic tragedies of Beaumont and Fletcher . In this play and in An Evening's Love Dryden made his first essay at ... Romans , with which he was but superficially acquainted , as being little adapted to delight modern audiences , or ...
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... Roman satire and an analysis of its chief authors . In the next year , 1693 , he translated three selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses and the episode of Hector and Andromache from the Iliad , and wrote a preface for a third miscellany ...
... Roman satire and an analysis of its chief authors . In the next year , 1693 , he translated three selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses and the episode of Hector and Andromache from the Iliad , and wrote a preface for a third miscellany ...
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... Roman name . But hasty winter , with one blast , hath brought The hopes of autumn , summer , spring , to naught . Thus fades the oak i̇ ' th ' sprig , i̇ ' th ' blade the corn ; Thus without young , this Phoenix dies , new- born . So ...
... Roman name . But hasty winter , with one blast , hath brought The hopes of autumn , summer , spring , to naught . Thus fades the oak i̇ ' th ' sprig , i̇ ' th ' blade the corn ; Thus without young , this Phoenix dies , new- born . So ...
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... Roman Knights ; that he was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune ; that he was design'd to the study of the law , and had made consider- able progress in it , before he quitted that pro- fession for this of poetry , to which he ...
... Roman Knights ; that he was born to the inheritance of a splendid fortune ; that he was design'd to the study of the law , and had made consider- able progress in it , before he quitted that pro- fession for this of poetry , to which he ...
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... Roman Catholics , how can we be secure from the practice of Jesuited Papists in that religion ? For not two or three of that order , as some of them would impose upon us , but almost the whole body of them , are of opinion that their ...
... Roman Catholics , how can we be secure from the practice of Jesuited Papists in that religion ? For not two or three of that order , as some of them would impose upon us , but almost the whole body of them , are of opinion that their ...
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