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... perhaps find much increase of knowledge , or much novelty of instruction ; but he is to remember that critical principles were then in the hands of a few , who had gathered them partly from the ancients , and partly from the Italians ...
... perhaps find much increase of knowledge , or much novelty of instruction ; but he is to remember that critical principles were then in the hands of a few , who had gathered them partly from the ancients , and partly from the Italians ...
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... perhaps , possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius ...
... perhaps , possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was published Persius ...
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... perhaps would a fresh supply have had any oth effect than , by putting immediate pleasures into power , to have driven the thoughts of his journey ou . of his mind . While he was thus spending the day in contrivit a scheme for the ...
... perhaps would a fresh supply have had any oth effect than , by putting immediate pleasures into power , to have driven the thoughts of his journey ou . of his mind . While he was thus spending the day in contrivit a scheme for the ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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