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... known , but all is shown con- fused and enlarged through the mist of pane- gyric . great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he ...
... known , but all is shown con- fused and enlarged through the mist of pane- gyric . great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he ...
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... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing in- tellectual ...
... known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender supplement . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing in- tellectual ...
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... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
... known , The soil's all barren sand , or rocky stone . COWLEY . A lover , burnt up by his affection , is compared to Egypt : The fate of Egypt I sustain , And never feel the dew of rain From clouds which in the head appear ; But all my ...
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... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illus- trations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
... known formality : But all pains eminently lie in thee . COWLEY . They were not always strictly curious , whether the opinions from which they drew their illus- trations were true ; it was enough that they were popular . Bacon remarks ...
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... known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or ...
... known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought : and as the noblest mien , or ...
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