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... prefent play , called prince of Tyre ; in the Gefla Romanorum , and Copland's prose romance , he is entitled king . Moft of the in- cidents of the play are found in the Conf . Amant . and a few of Gower's expreffions are occafionally ...
... prefent play , called prince of Tyre ; in the Gefla Romanorum , and Copland's prose romance , he is entitled king . Moft of the in- cidents of the play are found in the Conf . Amant . and a few of Gower's expreffions are occafionally ...
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... prefent ftory , as it appears in Belle - foreft's collection , ( Vol . VII . p . 113 , & feq . ) has yet a further claim to our notice , as it had the honour ( p . 148.9 ) of furnishing Dryden with the out- line of his Alexander's Feaft ...
... prefent ftory , as it appears in Belle - foreft's collection , ( Vol . VII . p . 113 , & feq . ) has yet a further claim to our notice , as it had the honour ( p . 148.9 ) of furnishing Dryden with the out- line of his Alexander's Feaft ...
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... prefent inftance , was defrauded of a like diftin & ion . The names invented or employed by Sidney , had once fuch popu- larity , that they were fometimes borrowed by poets who did not profefs to follow the dire & current of his fables ...
... prefent inftance , was defrauded of a like diftin & ion . The names invented or employed by Sidney , had once fuch popu- larity , that they were fometimes borrowed by poets who did not profefs to follow the dire & current of his fables ...
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... prefent form to all purposes of the flage , and of no very promifing life in the clofet . The purpose is to make men glorious , Et bonum quo antiquius eo melius . 1 As I fuppofe thefe lings with their context , to have originally ftood ...
... prefent form to all purposes of the flage , and of no very promifing life in the clofet . The purpose is to make men glorious , Et bonum quo antiquius eo melius . 1 As I fuppofe thefe lings with their context , to have originally ftood ...
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... prefent imitator of antiquated rhyme appears to have confifted . Again , old copy : This Antioch then , Antiochus the great " Built up ; this city , for his chicfeft feat . " I fuppofe the original lines were thefe , and as fuch have ...
... prefent imitator of antiquated rhyme appears to have confifted . Again , old copy : This Antioch then , Antiochus the great " Built up ; this city , for his chicfeft feat . " I fuppofe the original lines were thefe , and as fuch have ...
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