The Lives of the English Poets; and a criticism on their works, Volume 11790 |
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... pleasures , and a moderate re- " venue below the malice and flatteries of " fortune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo dif- ferently are they fhewn ! but actions are vifi- ble , though motives are fecret . Cowley cer- C 4 ...
... pleasures , and a moderate re- " venue below the malice and flatteries of " fortune . " So differently are things feen ! and fo dif- ferently are they fhewn ! but actions are vifi- ble , though motives are fecret . Cowley cer- C 4 ...
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... pleasure or fuf- fer the uneafinefs of folitude ; for he died at the Porch - house * in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenfer ; and king Charles pro- nounced , " That Mr ...
... pleasure or fuf- fer the uneafinefs of folitude ; for he died at the Porch - house * in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenfer ; and king Charles pro- nounced , " That Mr ...
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... pleasures in the minds of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
... pleasures in the minds of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things fubject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
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... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occafion , they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human na- ture ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as ...
... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occafion , they fhould have faid or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human na- ture ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impaffive and at leifure ; as ...
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... 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 by ...
... 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 by ...
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