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... performances of Cowley and Milton bé compared ( for May I hold to be su- perior to both , ) the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton bé compared ( for May I hold to be su- perior to both , ) the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley . Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ...
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... performances by their just value , and has there- fore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
... performances by their just value , and has there- fore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think ...
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... performance of the work . Every reader feels himself weary with this useless talk of an allegorical being . It is not only when the events are confessed- ly miraculous , that fancy and fiction lose their effect ; the whole system of ...
... performance of the work . Every reader feels himself weary with this useless talk of an allegorical being . It is not only when the events are confessed- ly miraculous , that fancy and fiction lose their effect ; the whole system of ...
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... performance at either University was " The Grateful Fair , " written by Christopher Smart , and represented at Pembroke College , Cam- bridge , about 1747.-R. The Lady Alice Egerton , became afterwards the wife of the Earl of Carbury ...
... performance at either University was " The Grateful Fair , " written by Christopher Smart , and represented at Pembroke College , Cam- bridge , about 1747.-R. The Lady Alice Egerton , became afterwards the wife of the Earl of Carbury ...
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... performance , on the man who hastens home , because his countrymen are contending for their liberty , and , when he reach - quaintance with the history of mankind , and es the scene of action , vapours away his patriot- * This is ...
... performance , on the man who hastens home , because his countrymen are contending for their liberty , and , when he reach - quaintance with the history of mankind , and es the scene of action , vapours away his patriot- * This is ...
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