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... mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems ...
... mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the ... minds seem scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems ...
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... mind of the greatest vi- gour and activity . . He then took upon himself the character of physician. cal compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus ...
... mind of the greatest vi- gour and activity . . He then took upon himself the character of physician. cal compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus ...
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... mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " " He continued , " says his biographer , " under graphia Britannica . - H . great numbers ...
... mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " " He continued , " says his biographer , " under graphia Britannica . - H . great numbers ...
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... minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than ... mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is ...
... minds : they never inquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than ... mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is ...
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... mind is changed yourself may see . The same thoughts to retain still , and intents , Were more inconstant far : for accidents Must of all things most strangely inconstant prove , If from one subject they t ' another move ; My members ...
... mind is changed yourself may see . The same thoughts to retain still , and intents , Were more inconstant far : for accidents Must of all things most strangely inconstant prove , If from one subject they t ' another move ; My members ...
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