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Page 356
... imitation . He has several imitations of Cowley : Vestitur hinc tot sermo coloribus Quot tu , Pococki , dissimilis tui Orator effers , quot vicissim Te memores celebrare gaudent . I will not commend the figure which makes the orator ...
... imitation . He has several imitations of Cowley : Vestitur hinc tot sermo coloribus Quot tu , Pococki , dissimilis tui Orator effers , quot vicissim Te memores celebrare gaudent . I will not commend the figure which makes the orator ...
Page 392
... imitation of Shakespeare's style . In what he thought himself an imitator of Shake- speare , it is not easy to conceive . The numbers , the diction , the sentiments , and the conduct , every thing in which imitation can consist , are ...
... imitation of Shakespeare's style . In what he thought himself an imitator of Shake- speare , it is not easy to conceive . The numbers , the diction , the sentiments , and the conduct , every thing in which imitation can consist , are ...
Page 435
... imitation of the Divine Dispensation . And yet the author of this tragedy does not only run counter to this , in the fate of his principal character ; but every where , throughout it , makes virtue suffer , and vice triumph : for not ...
... imitation of the Divine Dispensation . And yet the author of this tragedy does not only run counter to this , in the fate of his principal character ; but every where , throughout it , makes virtue suffer , and vice triumph : for not ...
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