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... observation . Their attempts were al- ways analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured particulari- ties , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life ...
... observation . Their attempts were al- ways analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured particulari- ties , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life ...
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... observed ; the few decisions and remarks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time ac- cessions to English literature , and show such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey ...
... observed ; the few decisions and remarks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time ac- cessions to English literature , and show such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey ...
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... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , neither have our English poets observed it , for aught I can find . The Latins ( qui Musas colunt severiores ) sometimes did it ...
... observed in divers other places of this poem , that else will pass for very careless verses : as before , neither have our English poets observed it , for aught I can find . The Latins ( qui Musas colunt severiores ) sometimes did it ...
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... observed by Felton , in his Essay on the Classics , that Cowley was beloved by every muse that he courted ; and that ... observation which could have had no propriety , had his poetical abilities been known before . sters . Being ...
... observed by Felton , in his Essay on the Classics , that Cowley was beloved by every muse that he courted ; and that ... observation which could have had no propriety , had his poetical abilities been known before . sters . Being ...
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... observation of a man of judgment , naturally right , forsaking bad copies by degrees , and advancing towards a better prac- tice as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty ...
... observation of a man of judgment , naturally right , forsaking bad copies by degrees , and advancing towards a better prac- tice as he gains more confidence in himself . In his translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty ...
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