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Page 111
But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ...
But their peculiarity is not excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ...
Page 190
It is pleasing to discover that his piety was without weakness ; that his intellectual powers continued vigorous ; and that the lines which he composed when he , for age , could neither read nor write , are not inferior to the effusions ...
It is pleasing to discover that his piety was without weakness ; that his intellectual powers continued vigorous ; and that the lines which he composed when he , for age , could neither read nor write , are not inferior to the effusions ...
Page 448
All the enchantment of fancy , and all the cogency of argument , are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest , the care of pleasing the Author of his being . Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of a vision , sometimes ...
All the enchantment of fancy , and all the cogency of argument , are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest , the care of pleasing the Author of his being . Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of a vision , sometimes ...
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