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... sufficiently ostentatious , but were explained by inscrip . tions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the king , from whom , after a long ...
... sufficiently ostentatious , but were explained by inscrip . tions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the king , from whom , after a long ...
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... sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon relates the successive vicissitudes of his own mind without the intervention of any other speaker or the mention of any other agent , unless it ...
... sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon relates the successive vicissitudes of his own mind without the intervention of any other speaker or the mention of any other agent , unless it ...
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... sufficient consonance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cowley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into heroic poetry . He had apparently such rectitude of judgment as ...
... sufficient consonance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cowley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into heroic poetry . He had apparently such rectitude of judgment as ...
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... sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity ; there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy and ...
... sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity ; there is more bustle than sentiment ; the plot is busy and ...
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... sufficient learning , with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect , with un- conquerable pertinacity , with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic , and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by ...
... sufficient learning , with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect , with un- conquerable pertinacity , with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic , and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by ...
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