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... public occafions . He pro- bably confidered that he who purposed to be an author , ought first to be a student . He obtained , whatever was the reafon , no fellow- ship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it ...
... public occafions . He pro- bably confidered that he who purposed to be an author , ought first to be a student . He obtained , whatever was the reafon , no fellow- ship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it ...
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... public candidate for fame , by publishing Heroic Stanzas on the late Lord Protector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Waller on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise great ex- pectations of the rising poet . When ...
... public candidate for fame , by publishing Heroic Stanzas on the late Lord Protector ; which , compared with the verses of Sprat and Waller on the fame occafion , were fufficient to raise great ex- pectations of the rising poet . When ...
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... public . His first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy au- guries ;. for his performance was so much dif- approved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to the form ...
... public . His first piece was a comedy called the Wild Gallant . He began with no happy au- guries ;. for his performance was so much dif- approved , that he was compelled to recall it , and change it from its imperfect state to the form ...
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... public with dramatick wonders ; to exhibit in its highest elevation a theatrical meteor of incredible love and impoffible va- lour , and to leave no room for a wilder flight to the extravagance of pofterity . All the rays of romantick ...
... public with dramatick wonders ; to exhibit in its highest elevation a theatrical meteor of incredible love and impoffible va- lour , and to leave no room for a wilder flight to the extravagance of pofterity . All the rays of romantick ...
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... public infliction ; and once particu- larly demands respect for the patience with which he endured the lofs of his little for- tune . His patron might , indeed , enjoin him to suppress his bounty ; but if he fuf- fered nothing , he ...
... public infliction ; and once particu- larly demands respect for the patience with which he endured the lofs of his little for- tune . His patron might , indeed , enjoin him to suppress his bounty ; but if he fuf- fered nothing , he ...
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