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... fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy- fical ...
... fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes different forms . About the beginning of the feventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphy- fical ...
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... fubject they t ' another move : My members then , the father members were From whence these take their birth , which now are here . If then this body love what th ' other did , ' Twere inceft , which by nature is forbid . The love of ...
... fubject they t ' another move : My members then , the father members were From whence these take their birth , which now are here . If then this body love what th ' other did , ' Twere inceft , which by nature is forbid . The love of ...
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... , but for conceits . Night has been a common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : VOL . I. E Thou Thou seeft me here at midnight , now all reft COWLEY . 49 .
... , but for conceits . Night has been a common fubject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : VOL . I. E Thou Thou seeft me here at midnight , now all reft COWLEY . 49 .
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... fubject for his task , we sometimes esteem as learned , and fometimes defpife as trifling , always ad- mire as ingenious , and always condemn as unnatural . The Pindarique Odes are now to be con- fidered ; a species of compofition ...
... fubject for his task , we sometimes esteem as learned , and fometimes defpife as trifling , always ad- mire as ingenious , and always condemn as unnatural . The Pindarique Odes are now to be con- fidered ; a species of compofition ...
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... fubject , he fometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick ; and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his ftrains are fuch as thofe of the Theban Bard were to his contemporaries : VOL . I. F Begin Begin the fong , and ftrike ...
... fubject , he fometimes rises to dignity truly Pindarick ; and , if some deficiencies of language be forgiven , his ftrains are fuch as thofe of the Theban Bard were to his contemporaries : VOL . I. F Begin Begin the fong , and ftrike ...
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afterwards againſt almoſt anſwer appears becauſe beſt cauſe cenfured compofitions Comus confidered Cowley defign defire delight diſcovered Dryden Earl eaſily elegance Engliſh eſcape expreffion fafe faid fame fatire favour fays fecond feems fent fentiments fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon ftudies fubject fuch fufficiently fupply fuppofed fure greateſt himſelf hiſtory houſe Hudibras images itſelf kindneſs King known laft laſt Latin learning leaſt lefs Lord Lord Conway meaſure Milton mind moſt muſt nature neceffary never NIHIL numbers obferved occafion paffage paffion Paradife Loft perfons perhaps Philips Pindar pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry praiſe prefent preferved profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſed reaſon reprefented rhyme ſays ſeems ſome ſtate ſtill ſtudy ſtyle ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion tranflation underſtanding univerfally uſe verfe verfification verſes Waller whofe whoſe write