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... elegance , and elegance sustained by truth . In the structure and order of the poem , not only the greater parts are properly consecutive , but the didactic and illustrative paragraphs are so happily mingled , that labour is relieved by ...
... elegance , and elegance sustained by truth . In the structure and order of the poem , not only the greater parts are properly consecutive , but the didactic and illustrative paragraphs are so happily mingled , that labour is relieved by ...
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... elegance , and , at his removal to New College , in 1719 , pre- sented to the electors , as the product of his private and voluntary studies , a complete version of Lucan's poem , which he did not then know to have been translated by ...
... elegance , and , at his removal to New College , in 1719 , pre- sented to the electors , as the product of his private and voluntary studies , a complete version of Lucan's poem , which he did not then know to have been translated by ...
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... elegance of diction ; but , for want of a process of events , neither knowledge nor elegance pre- serve the reader from weariness . His Imitations of Spenser are very successfully performed , both with respect to the metre , the ...
... elegance of diction ; but , for want of a process of events , neither knowledge nor elegance pre- serve the reader from weariness . His Imitations of Spenser are very successfully performed , both with respect to the metre , the ...
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