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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying . a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying . a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others ...
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... tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , be- ing able to perform his exercises without them , and being an 66 enemy to constraint , " he fpared himself the labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Mil- ton , and Pope ...
... tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , be- ing able to perform his exercises without them , and being an 66 enemy to constraint , " he fpared himself the labour . Among the English poets , Cowley , Mil- ton , and Pope ...
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... tell his paffion ,. This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is na- tural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ...
... tell his paffion ,. This confideration cannot but abate , in fome measure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is na- tural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an ...
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... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all " the reft ) , Virgil has told the fame thing to " that purpose . " This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all " the reft ) , Virgil has told the fame thing to " that purpose . " This expreffion from a fecretary of the prefent time , would be confidered as merely ludicrous , or at ...
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... tell , cannot how- ever now be known . I must therefore recom- mend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
... tell , cannot how- ever now be known . I must therefore recom- mend the perufal of his work , to which my narration can be confidered only as a flender fupplement . COWLEY , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
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