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Page 43
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes ...
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes ...
Page 59
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inverfion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are intro- duced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inverfion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are intro- duced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
Page 66
... equal mea fure dance ; While the dance lafts , how long foe'er it be , My mufick's voice fhall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful found . After such enthusiasm , who will not la- ment to ...
... equal mea fure dance ; While the dance lafts , how long foe'er it be , My mufick's voice fhall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful found . After such enthusiasm , who will not la- ment to ...
Page 87
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of fome great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His diction was in his own time cenfured as negligent . He feems not to have known , or not to have ...
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of fome great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His diction was in his own time cenfured as negligent . He feems not to have known , or not to have ...
Page 94
... equal : + Begin , be bold , and venture to be wife : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole ftream that stopp'd him fhall be gone , Which runs , and , as it runs , for ever fhall ...
... equal : + Begin , be bold , and venture to be wife : He , who defers this work from day to day , Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole ftream that stopp'd him fhall be gone , Which runs , and , as it runs , for ever fhall ...
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