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...learned it. Dryden says of these writers what might be equally applied to most other play-work — " Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation than those poets writ. " Sensible people must think it a waste of time and money to visit the theatre to find the characters...

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...poet, but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived at a more high degree; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ. (ib.) Immerhin aber forderte die kühnheit seiner worte den Widerspruch von leuten wie Rochester heraus...

...age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; That what...And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else hisjwriting is not worse than theirs. Yet though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before...

...poet, but the age is praised. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree; Our native language more reflned and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than these poets writ. så harmedes man dog over Drydens overmod i epilogen. Således angreb John Wilmot,...

...the poet, but the age is prais'd. Wit 's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our ladies and our men now speak...worse than theirs. Yet, though you judge (as sure the critics will), That some before him writ with greater skill, : In this one praise he has their fame...

...and Honour now are higher rais'd, Wit 's now arriv'd to a more high degree ; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our ladies and our men now speak...poets writ. Then, one of these is, consequently, true ; j That what this poet writes comes short of you, And imitates you ill (which most he fears), Or else...

...but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arrived to a more high degree ; Our native language more refined and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ." no victory from oar wit This being what I have proposed to myself, I hope I shall not be thought arrogant...

...Conquest of Granada remarks that, Wit's now ariv'd to a more high degree; Our native Language more refin'd and free. Our Ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ.2 Pordage, in the Epistle Dedicatory to The Siege of Babylon, wrote: Wit is refined, and Ingenuity...