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... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful ...
... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful ...
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... gave a piteous groan , and so it broke In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for ...
... gave a piteous groan , and so it broke In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for ...
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... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writ - perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . ing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the fes- tive . The next class of his poems is ...
... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writ - perusal of his work will sufficiently evince . ing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the fes- tive . The next class of his poems is ...
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... gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the litera- ture of his country . | fessed , and perhaps believed , himself reclaimed ; and , to ...
... gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the litera- ture of his country . | fessed , and perhaps believed , himself reclaimed ; and , to ...
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... gave him no shame . Egerton , his sons , and Lady Alice Egerton , his daughter , passing through a place called the Hay- He went to the University with a design of wood forest , or , Haywood , in Herefordshire , were entering into the ...
... gave him no shame . Egerton , his sons , and Lady Alice Egerton , his daughter , passing through a place called the Hay- He went to the University with a design of wood forest , or , Haywood , in Herefordshire , were entering into the ...
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