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Page 35
... thy amorous rage . In the following verfes we have an allusion to a Rabbinical opinion concerning Manna : Variety I afk not give me one To live perpetually upon . D 2 The The Perfon Love does to us fit , Like manna COWL E Y. 35.
... thy amorous rage . In the following verfes we have an allusion to a Rabbinical opinion concerning Manna : Variety I afk not give me one To live perpetually upon . D 2 The The Perfon Love does to us fit , Like manna COWL E Y. 35.
Page 52
... opinions from which they drew their illuftrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that fome falfehoods are continued by tradition , becaufe they fupply commodious allufions . It " It gave a piteous ...
... opinions from which they drew their illuftrations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks , that fome falfehoods are continued by tradition , becaufe they fupply commodious allufions . It " It gave a piteous ...
Page 66
... opinions , which discover no irreverence of religion , muft defend him ; but that the ac- cufation of lafciviousness is unjuft , the peru- fal of his works will fufficiently evince . Cowley's Miflrefs has no power of feduc- tion " the ...
... opinions , which discover no irreverence of religion , muft defend him ; but that the ac- cufation of lafciviousness is unjuft , the peru- fal of his works will fufficiently evince . Cowley's Miflrefs has no power of feduc- tion " the ...
Page 102
... opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , be- caule this truncation is imitated by no fubfe- quent Roman poet ; because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recita- tion ; because in one the fenfe is now unfi ...
... opinion is erroneous , may be probably concluded , be- caule this truncation is imitated by no fubfe- quent Roman poet ; because Virgil himself filled up one broken line in the heat of recita- tion ; because in one the fenfe is now unfi ...
Page 132
... opinions : but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the mini- ftry , perhaps not yet advanced to a settled refolution of declining it , appears in a letter to ...
... opinions : but the thoughts of obedience , whether canonical or civil , raised his indignation . His unwillingness to engage in the mini- ftry , perhaps not yet advanced to a settled refolution of declining it , appears in a letter to ...
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