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... should be ranked , fuch as pof- feffed the true poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , AD- DISON , COWLEY , WALLER ...
... should be ranked , fuch as pof- feffed the true poetical genius , in a more moderate degree , but who had noble talents for moral , ethical , and panegyrical poefy . At the head of these are DRYDEN , PRIOR , AD- DISON , COWLEY , WALLER ...
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... should think of depopulating a circuit of fifteen leagues , and of fowing and planting a foreft therein , when he was now fixty- three years old , and could not reasonably hope to live long enough to have the plea- fure of hunting in it ...
... should think of depopulating a circuit of fifteen leagues , and of fowing and planting a foreft therein , when he was now fixty- three years old , and could not reasonably hope to live long enough to have the plea- fure of hunting in it ...
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... should end fortunately ; that in the first book there fhould be no fimile ; that the exordium should be very simple and unadorned : that in a tragedy , only three perfonages should appear at once upon the stage ; and that every tragedy ...
... should end fortunately ; that in the first book there fhould be no fimile ; that the exordium should be very simple and unadorned : that in a tragedy , only three perfonages should appear at once upon the stage ; and that every tragedy ...
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