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In March , 1728 , he appears in the Art of Sinking in Poetry , and in the first edition of the Dunciad , published in May of the same year , he is mentioned five times — once as a plagarist , once as the Lord Chancellor of Plays , once ...
In March , 1728 , he appears in the Art of Sinking in Poetry , and in the first edition of the Dunciad , published in May of the same year , he is mentioned five times — once as a plagarist , once as the Lord Chancellor of Plays , once ...
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Yet it may well be held that where he is at his best , at once at his freest and most concise , is where he approaches nearest to Swift in the handling of the octosyllabic verse which Prior at any rate took over from Butler and made ...
Yet it may well be held that where he is at his best , at once at his freest and most concise , is where he approaches nearest to Swift in the handling of the octosyllabic verse which Prior at any rate took over from Butler and made ...
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The start , after his fashion , is a little laboured , while he is sketching in the historical background ; but when the action once begins there is no slackening , and the public and private dramas are deftly interwoven .
The start , after his fashion , is a little laboured , while he is sketching in the historical background ; but when the action once begins there is no slackening , and the public and private dramas are deftly interwoven .
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