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... prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth and placid equability , which has never yet obtained its due commendation . Nothing is far - sought , or hard - laboured ; but all is ...
... prose at a greater distance from each other . His thoughts are natural , and his style has a smooth and placid equability , which has never yet obtained its due commendation . Nothing is far - sought , or hard - laboured ; but all is ...
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... prose ; it sounds like inspiration . ' LANDOR , Longer Prose Works , ii . 207 . The sentence runs in the original : ' But when God commands to take the trumpet , and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast , it lies not in man's will what ...
... prose ; it sounds like inspiration . ' LANDOR , Longer Prose Works , ii . 207 . The sentence runs in the original : ' But when God commands to take the trumpet , and blow a dolorous or a jarring blast , it lies not in man's will what ...
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... prose tracts they were all spurious . ' Cunningham's Lives of the Poets , i . 177 ; N. & Q. 3 S. viii . 354 . Mr. Longueville , a bencher of the Inner Temple , was the last patron and friend that poor old Butler had , and in his old age ...
... prose tracts they were all spurious . ' Cunningham's Lives of the Poets , i . 177 ; N. & Q. 3 S. viii . 354 . Mr. Longueville , a bencher of the Inner Temple , was the last patron and friend that poor old Butler had , and in his old age ...
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