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Page 52
... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . ' In the second book , Down a precipice deep , down he casts them all ...
... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , And over - runs the neighb'ring fields with violent course . ' In the second book , Down a precipice deep , down he casts them all ...
Page 176
... observation made by one of his editors , that he attained , by a felicity like instinct , a style which per- haps will never be obsolete ; and that , ' were we to judge only by the wording , we could not know what was wrote at twenty ...
... observation made by one of his editors , that he attained , by a felicity like instinct , a style which per- haps will never be obsolete ; and that , ' were we to judge only by the wording , we could not know what was wrote at twenty ...
Page 249
... observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first without the name of the author ...
... observed , that what is good only because it pleases , cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please . Sir Martin Marall is a comedy , published without preface or dedication , and at first without the name of the author ...
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