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... delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verfe , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , fometimes remembered , and perhaps fometimes forgotten , produce that particular defignation of ...
... delight to read , till , by feeling the charms of verfe , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , fometimes remembered , and perhaps fometimes forgotten , produce that particular defignation of ...
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... delights of folitary ftudies , " of temperate pleasures , and a moderate re- " venue below the malice and flatteries of " fortune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo dif- ferently are they fhewn ! but actions are vifi- ble ...
... delights of folitary ftudies , " of temperate pleasures , and a moderate re- " venue below the malice and flatteries of " fortune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo dif- ferently are they fhewn ! but actions are vifi- ble ...
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... delight , [ it quite ! Who , whilft thou should'st but taste , devour'st Thou bring'ft us an eftate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ...
... delight , [ it quite ! Who , whilft thou should'st but taste , devour'st Thou bring'ft us an eftate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys which we entire should wed , Come deflower'd virgins to our bed ...
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... deviation from nature 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 .
... deviation from nature 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 .
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... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Afpice quam variis diftringar Lefbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! noftro manat ab ...
... delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sannazaro : Afpice quam variis diftringar Lefbia curis ! Uror , & heu ! noftro manat ab ...
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