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... defire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the fuc- ceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine ...
... defire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the fuc- ceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Langbaine ...
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... defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
... defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
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... author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an * Barnefii Anacreontem . Dr. J. elaborate F elaborate difplay of his own qualifications . The defire 8 COWLEY ,
... author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an * Barnefii Anacreontem . Dr. J. elaborate F elaborate difplay of his own qualifications . The defire 8 COWLEY ,
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... defire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to ap- pear the champion as the poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have ...
... defire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroifm , and effufions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to ap- pear the champion as the poet of an airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have ...
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... defire had " been for fome days paft , and did still very vehemently continue , to retire him- " felf to fome of the American planta- 66 tions , and to forfake this world for " ever . " 66 From the obloquy which the appearance of ...
... defire had " been for fome days paft , and did still very vehemently continue , to retire him- " felf to fome of the American planta- 66 tions , and to forfake this world for " ever . " 66 From the obloquy which the appearance of ...
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