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Page xv
... knew that the author sate to him- self when he drew the picture , and was the very Bayes of his own farce : because , also , I knew The first sketch of the Rehearsal was written in 1664 , but the representation was prevented by the that ...
... knew that the author sate to him- self when he drew the picture , and was the very Bayes of his own farce : because , also , I knew The first sketch of the Rehearsal was written in 1664 , but the representation was prevented by the that ...
Page xvii
... knew not half the extent of Milton's excellence , as more than twenty years after he confessed to him , and is pretty plain from his writing The State of Inno- cence.'t We may add that Milton also was im- perfectly acquainted with ...
... knew not half the extent of Milton's excellence , as more than twenty years after he confessed to him , and is pretty plain from his writing The State of Inno- cence.'t We may add that Milton also was im- perfectly acquainted with ...
Page xx
... knew not a line in it he would be author of ; but he is a fine facetious person , as my friend Sir Formal has it , and to be even with him , I know a comedy of his that has not so much as a quibble in it , which I would be author of ...
... knew not a line in it he would be author of ; but he is a fine facetious person , as my friend Sir Formal has it , and to be even with him , I know a comedy of his that has not so much as a quibble in it , which I would be author of ...
Page xxxi
... knew , But all the words were such stuff , we want pa- tience , And little better is Monsieur Grabu . Bayes , thou wouldst have thy skill thought uni- versal , Tho ' thy dull ear be to music untrue ; have said , for a political purpose ...
... knew , But all the words were such stuff , we want pa- tience , And little better is Monsieur Grabu . Bayes , thou wouldst have thy skill thought uni- versal , Tho ' thy dull ear be to music untrue ; have said , for a political purpose ...
Page xxxiv
... knew how to assume every style that suited the occasion , writes here in the character of a devout and grateful catho- lic , with much of the unction which marks the hymns of the Romish church . In English poetry , we have hardly ...
... knew how to assume every style that suited the occasion , writes here in the character of a devout and grateful catho- lic , with much of the unction which marks the hymns of the Romish church . In English poetry , we have hardly ...
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