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... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shown con- fused and enlarged through the mist of pane- gyric . great painter of the present age , had ...
... character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shown con- fused and enlarged through the mist of pane- gyric . great painter of the present age , had ...
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... character of physician. cal compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a co- medy ...
... character of physician. cal compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school he produced a co- medy ...
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... characters been depraved like every other part by improper decorations , they would have deserved uncommon praise ... character of writing was indeed not his own : he unhappily adopted that which was predominant . He saw a certain way ...
... characters been depraved like every other part by improper decorations , they would have deserved uncommon praise ... character of writing was indeed not his own : he unhappily adopted that which was predominant . He saw a certain way ...
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... character separated from its adjacent fault by so'nice a of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word and line by line . Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains , Not the effect of ...
... character separated from its adjacent fault by so'nice a of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word and line by line . Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains , Not the effect of ...
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... estimate his skill in hydrostat- tics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears . Those authors , therefore , are to be read at famous assembly at Westminster , procured that the author should 23 MILTON .
... estimate his skill in hydrostat- tics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears . Those authors , therefore , are to be read at famous assembly at Westminster , procured that the author should 23 MILTON .
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