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... shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep ... shew'd me you . DONNE Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm : If men be ...
... shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep ... shew'd me you . DONNE Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon Man as a Microcosm : If men be ...
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... shew , that by studied misconstruction every thing may be equally represented as ridiculous . After so much of Dryden's elegant animadversions , justice requires that something of Settle's should be exhibited . The following ...
... shew , that by studied misconstruction every thing may be equally represented as ridiculous . After so much of Dryden's elegant animadversions , justice requires that something of Settle's should be exhibited . The following ...
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In Two Volumes Samuel Johnson. arguments , or deceived by a representation which shews only the doubts on one ... shew it in its fairest form ; and it must be owned to be a religion of external appearance sufficiently attractive ...
In Two Volumes Samuel Johnson. arguments , or deceived by a representation which shews only the doubts on one ... shew it in its fairest form ; and it must be owned to be a religion of external appearance sufficiently attractive ...
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