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Page 66
... Settle's fustian tragedies while he drudged away at comedies would have been disagreeable and humiliating to Dryden . He must have been relieved when the Duke's Company appealed to James and had Settle's play called back to them , along ...
... Settle's fustian tragedies while he drudged away at comedies would have been disagreeable and humiliating to Dryden . He must have been relieved when the Duke's Company appealed to James and had Settle's play called back to them , along ...
Page 69
... Settle's identification of Dryden has always been considered conclusive external evidence . That it does not appear such to Professor Ward is due , I think , to Settle's employment of a device of controversy . He pretends to ' guess ...
... Settle's identification of Dryden has always been considered conclusive external evidence . That it does not appear such to Professor Ward is due , I think , to Settle's employment of a device of controversy . He pretends to ' guess ...
Page 70
... Settle's remarks in the Ibrahim preface look like more than the " early guess " Prof. Ward speaks of . Settle writes : " Having made some little reflexions in an Epistle before my Morocco , which I have declared were very innocently ...
... Settle's remarks in the Ibrahim preface look like more than the " early guess " Prof. Ward speaks of . Settle writes : " Having made some little reflexions in an Epistle before my Morocco , which I have declared were very innocently ...
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