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... of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY .
... of words are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood , but by those who write to be admired . The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed 28 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The ...
Samuel Johnson. pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The ...
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... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversifica- tion are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversifica- tion are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
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... formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet ...
... formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet ...
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... formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college . But the truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge requires or in- cludes , are not the great or the frequent business of the ...
... formed the same plan of education in his imaginary college . But the truth is , that the knowledge of external nature , and the sciences which that knowledge requires or in- cludes , are not the great or the frequent business of the ...
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