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... poetry has never been re- fused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation ; yet ...
... poetry has never been re- fused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation ; yet ...
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... Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animad- verfions with great afperity , and almost with contumely . The dedication ...
... Poetry ; Howard , in his preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animad- verfions with great afperity , and almost with contumely . The dedication ...
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... Poetry , an elegant and inftruc- tive dialogue , in which we are told by Prior , that the principal character is meant to re- prefent the duke of Dorfet . This work feems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . 3 ...
... Poetry , an elegant and inftruc- tive dialogue , in which we are told by Prior , that the principal character is meant to re- prefent the duke of Dorfet . This work feems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . 3 ...
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... poet is " at breath again ; breath can never ' scape " him ; and here he brings in a breath that " must be infectious with pronouncing a fen- " tence ; and this fentence is not to be 66 pronounced till the condemned party " bleeds ...
... poet is " at breath again ; breath can never ' scape " him ; and here he brings in a breath that " must be infectious with pronouncing a fen- " tence ; and this fentence is not to be 66 pronounced till the condemned party " bleeds ...
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