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Pagina 99
... success or merit of this performance , I know not ; it was probably lost among the innumerable pamphlets to which that dispute gave occasion . Mr. Savage was himself in a little time ashamed of it , and endeavoured to suppress it , by ...
... success or merit of this performance , I know not ; it was probably lost among the innumerable pamphlets to which that dispute gave occasion . Mr. Savage was himself in a little time ashamed of it , and endeavoured to suppress it , by ...
Pagina 444
... success very much below his expectation . In 1753 , his masque of Britannia was acted at Drury- Lane , and his tragedy of Elvira in 1763 ; in which year he was appointed keeper of the book of Entries for ships in the port of London . In ...
... success very much below his expectation . In 1753 , his masque of Britannia was acted at Drury- Lane , and his tragedy of Elvira in 1763 ; in which year he was appointed keeper of the book of Entries for ships in the port of London . In ...
Pagina 448
... success , that a stranger was not likely to gain ground upon him . Akenside tried the contest a while ; and , having deafened the place with clamours for liberty , removed to Hampstead , where he resided more than two years , and then ...
... success , that a stranger was not likely to gain ground upon him . Akenside tried the contest a while ; and , having deafened the place with clamours for liberty , removed to Hampstead , where he resided more than two years , and then ...
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