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... FENTON , 1685-1730 P. 282 Born at Shelton , in Staffordshire , 282 - Educated at Cambridge , 282— Pope recommends him to Craggs , 283 - In 1723 Mariamne performed , 283 --Dies in 1730 , at Easthampsted in Berkshire , 284 - Pope honours ...
... FENTON , 1685-1730 P. 282 Born at Shelton , in Staffordshire , 282 - Educated at Cambridge , 282— Pope recommends him to Craggs , 283 - In 1723 Mariamne performed , 283 --Dies in 1730 , at Easthampsted in Berkshire , 284 - Pope honours ...
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... Fenton's elegant abridgment , but that a new narrative was thought necessary to the uniformity of this edition . JOHN MILTON was by birth a gentleman , descended from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one of whom ...
... Fenton's elegant abridgment , but that a new narrative was thought necessary to the uniformity of this edition . JOHN MILTON was by birth a gentleman , descended from the proprietors of Milton , near Thame , in Oxfordshire , one of whom ...
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... Fenton , to another destiny . * It appears , by some sketches of poetical projects left in manuscript , and to be seen in a libraryt at Cambridge , that he had digested his thoughts on this subject into one of those wild dramas which ...
... Fenton , to another destiny . * It appears , by some sketches of poetical projects left in manuscript , and to be seen in a libraryt at Cambridge , that he had digested his thoughts on this subject into one of those wild dramas which ...
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... Fenton , from whose notes on Waller most of this account must be borrowed , though I know not whether all that he relates is certain . The instructor whom he assigns to Roscommon is one Dr. Hall , by whom he cannot mean the famous Hall ...
... Fenton , from whose notes on Waller most of this account must be borrowed , though I know not whether all that he relates is certain . The instructor whom he assigns to Roscommon is one Dr. Hall , by whom he cannot mean the famous Hall ...
Pàgina 90
... Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which he had been ac- quainted abroad . In this design his friend Dryden is said to have assisted him . The same design , it is well known , was revived by Dr. Swift in the ministry of ...
... Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which he had been ac- quainted abroad . In this design his friend Dryden is said to have assisted him . The same design , it is well known , was revived by Dr. Swift in the ministry of ...
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