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Page 162
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
... easily be found than is here offered , and it must be by preserving such relations that we may at last judge how much they are to be regarded . If we stay to examine this account , we shall see difficulties on both sides ; here is a ...
Page 305
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
Page 406
... easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagina- tion . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a ...
... easily and properly adapted ; for when objects are imperfectly seen , they easily take forms from imagina- tion . The scene lies among our ancestors in our own country , and therefore very easily catches attention . Rhodogune is a ...
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