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Pagina 7
... easily supposed that they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the Queen's ministers met Mesnager ( Sep- tember 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior ...
... easily supposed that they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the Queen's ministers met Mesnager ( Sep- tember 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior ...
Pagina 19
... easily written on any subject . In his Epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the Queen , the pedant has found his way , with Minerva , Perseus , and Andromeda , His Epigrams and ...
... easily written on any subject . In his Epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the Queen , the pedant has found his way , with Minerva , Perseus , and Andromeda , His Epigrams and ...
Pagina 41
... easily furnished . " I am not free of the poet's company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permis- sion - poem , but a downright interloper . Those gen- tlemen who carry on their poetical ...
... easily furnished . " I am not free of the poet's company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permis- sion - poem , but a downright interloper . Those gen- tlemen who carry on their poetical ...
Pagina 42
... easily make a false estimate of his own im- portance : those whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved ...
... easily make a false estimate of his own im- portance : those whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved ...
Pagina 43
... easily confederated against him , as Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had besides given them reason for resentment ; as , in his preface to " Prince Arthur , " he had said of the dramatic ...
... easily confederated against him , as Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had besides given them reason for resentment ; as , in his preface to " Prince Arthur , " he had said of the dramatic ...
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