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Page viii
... ground , the other ran away . ' The former couplet is quoted in Timon , a Satire , in the Duke of Buckingham's Works , p . 164 . who but he durst presume To make th ' old world a new withdrawing room , When of another world she's ...
... ground , the other ran away . ' The former couplet is quoted in Timon , a Satire , in the Duke of Buckingham's Works , p . 164 . who but he durst presume To make th ' old world a new withdrawing room , When of another world she's ...
Page xiv
... ground , when he brought out his cele- brated farce of the Rehearsal , in order to cor rect the public taste by holding up the rhyming tragedies to ridicule . This , however , was a task to which Buckingham's unassisted talents + were ...
... ground , when he brought out his cele- brated farce of the Rehearsal , in order to cor rect the public taste by holding up the rhyming tragedies to ridicule . This , however , was a task to which Buckingham's unassisted talents + were ...
Page xix
... ground . The manuscript was perused by Charles , be- fore it received the author's last hand , and ( oh ! courtly confession ! ) the most considerable event in it was modelled by his royal plea sure ; which is something better than his ...
... ground . The manuscript was perused by Charles , be- fore it received the author's last hand , and ( oh ! courtly confession ! ) the most considerable event in it was modelled by his royal plea sure ; which is something better than his ...
Page xxx
... ground . ' Although the object of his poem was to explain the tenets and defend the character of the Re- formed Church ; * and although it must have represented Dryden's serious attachment to it , yet some not ambiguous marks have been ...
... ground . ' Although the object of his poem was to explain the tenets and defend the character of the Re- formed Church ; * and although it must have represented Dryden's serious attachment to it , yet some not ambiguous marks have been ...
Page xlii
... ground ) did honour to the soundness and manliness of his taste . Having proceeded in his undertak- ing , he agreed , in 1699 , to furnish his booksel- ler with ten thousand verses for the sum of 500l . of which 2501. was to be paid ...
... ground ) did honour to the soundness and manliness of his taste . Having proceeded in his undertak- ing , he agreed , in 1699 , to furnish his booksel- ler with ten thousand verses for the sum of 500l . of which 2501. was to be paid ...
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