Assignation

Its success, with that of "Aureng-Zebe," gave fresh lustre to the author's reputation, which had been somewhat tarnished by the failure of the "Assignation," and the rise of so many rival dramatists.

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Yet although, upon reading the "Assignation," we cannot greatly wonder at this failure, still, considering the plays which succeeded about the same time, we may be disposed to admit that the weight of a party was thrown into the scale against its reception.

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But, though guiltless in this respect, the "Assignation" had worse faults.

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Dryden, with more indignation than the occasion warranted, retorted, in the Prologue to the "Assignation," by the following attack on Ravenscroft's jargon and buffoonery:

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Ravenscroft, thus satirised, did not fail to exult in the bad success of the "Assignation," and celebrated his triumph in some lines of a

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"Assignation," when discourse was neither too serious nor too light, but always pleasant, and for the most part instructive; the raillery neither too sharp upon the present, nor too censorious upon the absent; and the cups such only as raised the conversation of the night, without disturbing the business of the morrow.

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The "Assignation" was published in 1673, and inscribed, by Dryden, to his much honoured friend Sir Charles Sedley.

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"Assignation," his last theatrical attempt: -- "If I must be condemned to rhyme, I should find some ease in my change of punishment.

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The Thompson Divide area rises from near Carbondale, where red rock fins contrast sharply with the surrounding greenery along this important riparian area, through montane forests to sub-alpine ecosystems atop Assignation Ridge and beyond into the roadless lands around Clear Fork.

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Questions remain on all of them such as the J. F.K Assignation where so many unanswered questions remain regarding the shooter and the 9-11 so called terrorist act where more questions raised than were ever answered as to who did it, why and how it was done.

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