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... fantastic face , Thro ' all the turns of matter's maze did trace ; Great Nature's well - fet clock in pieces took ; On all the springs and smallest wheels did look Of Of life and motion , and with equal art Made COWL E Y. 45.
... fantastic face , Thro ' all the turns of matter's maze did trace ; Great Nature's well - fet clock in pieces took ; On all the springs and smallest wheels did look Of Of life and motion , and with equal art Made COWL E Y. 45.
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Samuel Johnson. Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun ...
Samuel Johnson. Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the Sun ...
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... equal pleasure . The artifices of inverfion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inverfion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
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... equal mea- fure dance ; While the dance lafts , how long foe'er it be , My mufick's voice fhall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful found . After fuch enthufiafm , who will not la- ment to ...
... equal mea- fure dance ; While the dance lafts , how long foe'er it be , My mufick's voice fhall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful found . After fuch enthufiafm , who will not la- ment to ...
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... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of fome great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His diction was in his own time cenfured as negligent . He feems not to have known , or not to have ...
... equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of fome great admiral , were but a wand , He walked with . His diction was in his own time cenfured as negligent . He feems not to have known , or not to have ...
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