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Page 42
... seen too often vacant , and the scenes are She acted not sufficiently connected . bore with however , would be called , by Dryden , only a mechanical defect ; which takes away little from the power of the poem , and which is seen rather ...
... seen too often vacant , and the scenes are She acted not sufficiently connected . bore with however , would be called , by Dryden , only a mechanical defect ; which takes away little from the power of the poem , and which is seen rather ...
Page 92
... seen , and than any thing I have seen in the had great pleasure in your felicit way of eulogium yet . I have no Pardon me , if now I feel a wish guess of the author . that , short as my acquaintance wit I do not wish to remind the Chan ...
... seen , and than any thing I have seen in the had great pleasure in your felicit way of eulogium yet . I have no Pardon me , if now I feel a wish guess of the author . that , short as my acquaintance wit I do not wish to remind the Chan ...
Page 126
... seen . As it is only to be a tide - waiter , a land - waiter , or twenty miles from London , I would an officer of excise . I told him , it recommend it to your grace , when was particularly unlucky that I had you are there , as worth ...
... seen . As it is only to be a tide - waiter , a land - waiter , or twenty miles from London , I would an officer of excise . I told him , it recommend it to your grace , when was particularly unlucky that I had you are there , as worth ...
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