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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tender- ness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tender- ness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , who had means enough of information , that , whatever ...
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... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to ...
... excellence : if they differ from verses of others , they differ for the worse ; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness ; the combination of words are new , but they are not pleasing ; the rhymes and epithets seem to ...
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... excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal to the first stanza of ...
... excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal to the first stanza of ...
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