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... Something to anfwer in fome proportion All the world's riches and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our foul's foul is . OF thoughts fo far fetched , as to be not only unexpected , but unnatural , all their books are ...
... Something to anfwer in fome proportion All the world's riches and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our foul's foul is . OF thoughts fo far fetched , as to be not only unexpected , but unnatural , all their books are ...
Page 53
... something would have spoke : The love within too ftrong for't was , Like poifon put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . IN forming defcriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which ...
... something would have spoke : The love within too ftrong for't was , Like poifon put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . IN forming defcriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which ...
Page 55
... in pur- fuit of something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight , by their defire of exciting admiration . E 4 HAVING HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the GOWLEY . 55.
... in pur- fuit of something new and strange ; and that the writers fail to give delight , by their defire of exciting admiration . E 4 HAVING HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the GOWLEY . 55.
Page 182
... law , it required no great intereft to exempt Milton from a cen- fure little more than verbal . Something may be reasonably afcribed to veneration and com- paffion ; paffion ; to veneration of his abilities , and compaffion. 182 MILT O N.
... law , it required no great intereft to exempt Milton from a cen- fure little more than verbal . Something may be reasonably afcribed to veneration and com- paffion ; paffion ; to veneration of his abilities , and compaffion. 182 MILT O N.
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