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... learning , but refused the less carefully suppressed , the omission of his husks , had the appearance of an instinctive elename in the register of St. Dunstan's parish gance , of a particular provision made by Nature gives reason to ...
... learning , but refused the less carefully suppressed , the omission of his husks , had the appearance of an instinctive elename in the register of St. Dunstan's parish gance , of a particular provision made by Nature gives reason to ...
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... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
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... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on KnowThe sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , [ shew . That right Porphyrian tree ...
... learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on KnowThe sacred tree ' midst the fair orchard grew ; The phoenix Truth did on it rest , And built his perfum'd nest , [ shew . That right Porphyrian tree ...
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... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
... learning and religion , And virtue and such ingredients , have made A mithridate , whose operation Keeps off , or cures what can be done or said . Though the following lines of Donne , on the last night of the year , have something in ...
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... learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance , Suckling could have brought the gayety but not the knowledge : Dryden could have ...
... learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , and the critic , mingle their influence even in this airy frolic of genius . To such a performance , Suckling could have brought the gayety but not the knowledge : Dryden could have ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Jones & Company, 1825 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 363 pages |
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