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... perhaps with more than was de- served . Silence is indeed mere privation ; and , fo confidered , cannot invade ; but pri- vation likewife certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been re- fused the right of ...
... perhaps with more than was de- served . Silence is indeed mere privation ; and , fo confidered , cannot invade ; but pri- vation likewife certainly is darkness , and probably cold ; yet poetry has never been re- fused the right of ...
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... perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very readily adopted his master's preference . He therefore made rhyming tragedies , till , by the prevalence of manifest ...
... perhaps knew that by his dexterity of verfification he was more likely to excel others in rhyme than without it , very readily adopted his master's preference . He therefore made rhyming tragedies , till , by the prevalence of manifest ...
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... perhaps ventured without much confideration . He began , even now , to exercife the domination of confcious genius , by recommending his own . performance : " I am fatisfied that as the " Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] 66 are ...
... perhaps ventured without much confideration . He began , even now , to exercife the domination of confcious genius , by recommending his own . performance : " I am fatisfied that as the " Prince and General [ Rupert and Monk ] 66 are ...
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Samuel Johnson. only to fay , that he was not the first nor perhaps the greatest offender . Against those that accused ... perhaps fhortnefs of time was his private boaft in the form of an apology . It was written before the Conqueft of ...
Samuel Johnson. only to fay , that he was not the first nor perhaps the greatest offender . Against those that accused ... perhaps fhortnefs of time was his private boaft in the form of an apology . It was written before the Conqueft of ...
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... perhaps his " fimilitude has more in it than we imagine ; " this ship had a great many guns in her , " and they , put all together , made the fting " in the wafp's tail : for this is all the reason " I can guefs , why it feem'd a wasp ...
... perhaps his " fimilitude has more in it than we imagine ; " this ship had a great many guns in her , " and they , put all together , made the fting " in the wafp's tail : for this is all the reason " I can guefs , why it feem'd a wasp ...
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