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Page 141
... gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ... give occasion , like his attack upon the bear and fiddle , to express the ridiculous rigour of the sectaries ; like ...
... gives him up at once to laughter and contempt , without any quality that can dignify or protect him . In forming the ... give occasion , like his attack upon the bear and fiddle , to express the ridiculous rigour of the sectaries ; like ...
Page 295
... give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . Holyday had ...
... give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden calls the best versifier of the last age , has struggled hard to comprise every book of his English Metamorphoses in the same number of verses with the original . Holyday had ...
Page 343
... give you an account when I come to town . I remember the counsel you give me in your letter ; but dissembling , though lawful in some cases , is not my talent ; yet , for your sake , I will struggle with the plain openness of my nature ...
... give you an account when I come to town . I remember the counsel you give me in your letter ; but dissembling , though lawful in some cases , is not my talent ; yet , for your sake , I will struggle with the plain openness of my nature ...
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