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... believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all ...
... believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all ...
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... believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country , and ...
... believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country , and ...
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... believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various know- ledge ; and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines ...
... believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of Donne , a man of very extensive and various know- ledge ; and by Jonson , whose manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines ...
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... believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroic of ten syllables ; and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as ...
... believe , the first poet that mingled Alexandrines at pleasure with the common heroic of ten syllables ; and from him Dryden borrowed the practice , whether ornamental or licentious . He considered the verse of twelve syllables as ...
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... believe , is a small history of poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips , of which perhaps none of my readers has ever heard . That in his school , as in every thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence ...
... believe , is a small history of poetry , written in Latin by his nephew Philips , of which perhaps none of my readers has ever heard . That in his school , as in every thing else which he undertook , he laboured with great diligence ...
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