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Pagina 244
... public occa- sions . He probably considered that he who proposed to be an author , ought first to be a student . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is ...
... public occa- sions . He probably considered that he who proposed to be an author , ought first to be a student . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is ...
Pagina 449
... public thinks long , it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined , that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama , rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language , than a ...
... public thinks long , it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined , that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama , rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language , than a ...
Pagina 476
... public business , is supposed to have amused himself by writing his two tragedies . He died February 24 , 1720-21 . He was thrice married ; by his two first wives he had no children ; by his third , who was the daughter of king James by ...
... public business , is supposed to have amused himself by writing his two tragedies . He died February 24 , 1720-21 . He was thrice married ; by his two first wives he had no children ; by his third , who was the daughter of king James by ...
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