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... compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer ... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of antiquity ...
... compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer ... composition , which Cowley thinks Pancirolus might have counted in his list of the lost inventions of antiquity ...
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... composition of that tender kind arose , as Mr Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has ...
... composition of that tender kind arose , as Mr Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has ...
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... composition may naturally involve them , or the scantiness of the subject allow little choice . However , what is borrowed is not to be enjoyed as our own , and it is the business of critical justice to give every bird of the Muses his ...
... composition may naturally involve them , or the scantiness of the subject allow little choice . However , what is borrowed is not to be enjoyed as our own , and it is the business of critical justice to give every bird of the Muses his ...
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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