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... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
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... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operatious of intellect . Those however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall ...
... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operatious of intellect . Those however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall ...
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... nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of ...
... nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of ...
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... Nature's hand- And I must needs , I'm sure , a loser be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That prayer and labour should co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are such mix'd engines found , ' As hands ...
... Nature's hand- And I must needs , I'm sure , a loser be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That prayer and labour should co - operate , are thus taught by Donne : In none but us are such mix'd engines found , ' As hands ...
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... nature in pursuit of something new and strange ; and that the writ- ers fail to give delight by their desire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the ...
... nature in pursuit of something new and strange ; and that the writ- ers fail to give delight by their desire of exciting admiration . HAVING thus endeavoured to exhibit a general representation of the style and sentiments of the ...
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