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... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . 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 ...
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . 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 ...
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... equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
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... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; ' Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find ...
... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soe'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; ' Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find ...
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... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His diction was in his own time censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have ...
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His diction was in his own time censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have ...
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... syllables . What But , not to defraud him of his due praise , he has given one example of representative versification , which perhaps no other English line can equal : 拳 Begin , be bold , and venture to be COWLEY . 45.
... syllables . What But , not to defraud him of his due praise , he has given one example of representative versification , which perhaps no other English line can equal : 拳 Begin , be bold , and venture to be COWLEY . 45.
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