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... force , Or wind in volumes to their former course . " A very pretty allufion , contrary to all fenfe or reafon . Torrents , I take it , let them wind never fo much , can never return to their former courfe , unless he can suppose " that ...
... force , Or wind in volumes to their former course . " A very pretty allufion , contrary to all fenfe or reafon . Torrents , I take it , let them wind never fo much , can never return to their former courfe , unless he can suppose " that ...
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... force of understand- ing , but often depends upon enquiries which there is no opportunity of making , or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand . The Rehearsal was played in 1671 * , and yet is reprefented as ...
... force of understand- ing , but often depends upon enquiries which there is no opportunity of making , or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand . The Rehearsal was played in 1671 * , and yet is reprefented as ...
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... pardon " of good priefts , and am afraid his fhare of " the reparation will come to little . Let " him be fatisfied that he fhall never be able " me , that 7 65 ❝ to force himself upon me for an adverfary ;. 100 DRYDEN .
... pardon " of good priefts , and am afraid his fhare of " the reparation will come to little . Let " him be fatisfied that he fhall never be able " me , that 7 65 ❝ to force himself upon me for an adverfary ;. 100 DRYDEN .
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Samuel Johnson. ❝ to force himself upon me for an adverfary ; " I contemn him too much to enter into " competition with him . & goitibe fisted ? al As for the reft of thofe who have writ- " ten against me , they are fuch fcoundrels ...
Samuel Johnson. ❝ to force himself upon me for an adverfary ; " I contemn him too much to enter into " competition with him . & goitibe fisted ? al As for the reft of thofe who have writ- " ten against me , they are fuch fcoundrels ...
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... forces himself upon our esteem , we cannot refuse him to ftand high in his own . Every thing is excufed by the play of images and the fpritelinefs of expreffion . Though all is eafy , nothing is feeble ; though all feems carelefs ...
... forces himself upon our esteem , we cannot refuse him to ftand high in his own . Every thing is excufed by the play of images and the fpritelinefs of expreffion . Though all is eafy , nothing is feeble ; though all feems carelefs ...
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