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... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not im- self in my bed . This is my personal fortune proper to give some account . here to begin with . And , besides , I can get no money from my tenants , and have my meadows eaten up every ...
... criticism on the works of Cowley , it is not im- self in my bed . This is my personal fortune proper to give some account . here to begin with . And , besides , I can get no money from my tenants , and have my meadows eaten up every ...
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... criticism . I know not whether much to move the affections , as to exercise the Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to understanding . join with him in his preference of the two fa- vourite odes , which he estimates in his ...
... criticism . I know not whether much to move the affections , as to exercise the Scaliger himself has persuaded many readers to understanding . join with him in his preference of the two fa- vourite odes , which he estimates in his ...
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... critics , say , How poor to this was Pindar's style ! " Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemean ... critic , or to conceive how that which , according to Sprat , " is chiefly to be pre- ferred for its near affinity ...
... critics , say , How poor to this was Pindar's style ! " Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemean ... critic , or to conceive how that which , according to Sprat , " is chiefly to be pre- ferred for its near affinity ...
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... criticism as epic poems com- monly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shown by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shown but upon few ...
... criticism as epic poems com- monly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shown by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shown but upon few ...
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... criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be for- gotten . What is said by Sprat of his conversa- tion , that no man could draw from it any sus- picion of his excellence in poetry , may be applied It may be ...
... criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be for- gotten . What is said by Sprat of his conversa- tion , that no man could draw from it any sus- picion of his excellence in poetry , may be applied It may be ...
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