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... manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are more read than the Orlando Furiofo , or even Dante . Are there fo many cordial ad- mirers of Spenfer and Milton , as of Hudibras ; if we ftrike out of the num- ber of these supposed ...
... manners of the age . The fatires of Ariofto are more read than the Orlando Furiofo , or even Dante . Are there fo many cordial ad- mirers of Spenfer and Milton , as of Hudibras ; if we ftrike out of the num- ber of these supposed ...
Page viii
... manner to peruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your inverfions and tranfpo- fitions will not disguise and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre , like a diamond , unfet , and thrown back ...
... manner to peruse the paffage . If there be really in it a true poetical fpirit , all your inverfions and tranfpo- fitions will not disguise and extinguish it ; but it will retain its luftre , like a diamond , unfet , and thrown back ...
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... manner characterize the different countries which were to be gathered together on this important event , and fays only in undistin- guishing terms , See , barbarous nations at thy gates attend , Walk in thy light , and in thy temple ...
... manner characterize the different countries which were to be gathered together on this important event , and fays only in undistin- guishing terms , See , barbarous nations at thy gates attend , Walk in thy light , and in thy temple ...
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... manner of funeral lamentations : How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , fon of the morning ! Thou art dashed down to the earth , thou that didft crush the nations ! They next represent the king himself speak- ing , and madly ...
... manner of funeral lamentations : How art thou fallen from heaven , O Lucifer , fon of the morning ! Thou art dashed down to the earth , thou that didft crush the nations ! They next represent the king himself speak- ing , and madly ...
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... manners of that age . " This monarch protected letters , at a time , when books were fo rare and uncom- mon , that a countefs of Anjou gave for a collection of homilies , two hundred sheep , a measure of wheat , another of rye , a third ...
... manners of that age . " This monarch protected letters , at a time , when books were fo rare and uncom- mon , that a countefs of Anjou gave for a collection of homilies , two hundred sheep , a measure of wheat , another of rye , a third ...
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