The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain ...
... never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to pro- pagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain ...
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... never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's ... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty ...
... never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's ... never within the possibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty ...
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... never cancelled : nor that it made him think himself secure ; for at that dissolution of government which followed the death of Oliver , he returned into France , where he resumed his former station , and staid till the Restoration ...
... never cancelled : nor that it made him think himself secure ; for at that dissolution of government which followed the death of Oliver , he returned into France , where he resumed his former station , and staid till the Restoration ...
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... never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and ...
... never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and , when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and ...
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... never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either ...
... never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either ...
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