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... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were eafily irritated , was obliged * Now in the ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were eafily irritated , was obliged * Now in the ...
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... as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of of fondness , and their lamentation of for- row . 30 COWLEY .
... as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the viciffitudes of life , without intereft and without emotion . Their courtship was void of of fondness , and their lamentation of for- row . 30 COWLEY .
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... REMARKS are not eafily under- ftood without examples ; and I have there- fore collected inftances of the modes of writ- ing by which this fpecies of poets , for poets they were called by themselves and their ad- mirers , was eminently ...
... REMARKS are not eafily under- ftood without examples ; and I have there- fore collected inftances of the modes of writ- ing by which this fpecies of poets , for poets they were called by themselves and their ad- mirers , was eminently ...
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... 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 groan , and fo it broke 52 COWLEY .
... 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 groan , and fo it broke 52 COWLEY .
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... remarks which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis fupply , were at that time acceffions to En- glish literature , and fhew fuch skill as raifes our wish for more examples . The lines from Jerfey are a very curious and pleasing ...
... remarks which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis fupply , were at that time acceffions to En- glish literature , and fhew fuch skill as raifes our wish for more examples . The lines from Jerfey are a very curious and pleasing ...
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