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... expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect ...
... expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect ...
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... expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot how- ever now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement ...
... expressions , and to leave curi- osity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot how- ever now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement ...
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... expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copiousness of sentiment . This ...
... expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety , though less copiousness of sentiment . This ...
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... expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or license can reconcile to the understanding . A Lover neither Dead nor Alive . Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while was dead , And my freed ...
... expressions were sometimes grossly absurd , and such as no figures or license can reconcile to the understanding . A Lover neither Dead nor Alive . Then down I laid my head Down on cold earth ; and for a while was dead , And my freed ...
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... expressions sometimes raise horror , when they intend perhaps to be pathetic : As men in hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills am I , Free from their known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They ...
... expressions sometimes raise horror , when they intend perhaps to be pathetic : As men in hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills am I , Free from their known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They ...
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