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Page 57
... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that Wit , which had been till then used for Intellection , in contradistinction to Will , took the mean- ing , whatever it ...
... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that Wit , which had been till then used for Intellection , in contradistinction to Will , took the mean- ing , whatever it ...
Page 90
... faw a certain way to present praise ; and not fufficiently enquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human man- manners , he contented himself with a deci- duous laurel 90 COWLEY .
... faw a certain way to present praise ; and not fufficiently enquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human man- manners , he contented himself with a deci- duous laurel 90 COWLEY .
Page 187
... tragedy or mystery , not of a narrative , but a dramatick work , which he is fuppofed to have begun to reduce to its present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished finished his difpute with the defenders of the king . MILTON . 187.
... tragedy or mystery , not of a narrative , but a dramatick work , which he is fuppofed to have begun to reduce to its present form about the time ( 1655 ) when he finished finished his difpute with the defenders of the king . MILTON . 187.
Page 305
... present times ; and perhaps few will be found where the parallelifm is better preserved than in this . The verfification is indeed fome- times careless , but it is fometimes vigorous and weighty . The strongest effort of his Mufe is his ...
... present times ; and perhaps few will be found where the parallelifm is better preserved than in this . The verfification is indeed fome- times careless , but it is fometimes vigorous and weighty . The strongest effort of his Mufe is his ...
Page 318
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be ex- pected to do but little . If an academician's place were profitable , it would be given by intereft ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be ex- pected to do but little . If an academician's place were profitable , it would be given by intereft ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
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