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... 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 139
... 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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... observed , and of what could he be proud but of his poetry ? He writes , he says , when he has just nothing else to do ; yet Swift complains that he was never at leisure for conversation , because he had always some poetical scheme in ...
... observed , and of what could he be proud but of his poetry ? He writes , he says , when he has just nothing else to do ; yet Swift complains that he was never at leisure for conversation , because he had always some poetical scheme in ...
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