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... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
... play ; Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed ...
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... play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets tended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging ...
... play . He knew how to distinguish , and how to commend , the qualities of his companion ; but , when he wishes to make us weep , he forgets tended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging ...
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... played by Addison . Love is by Cowley , as by other poets , expressed metaphorically by flame and fire ; and that ... plays round the head ; but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain ...
... played by Addison . Love is by Cowley , as by other poets , expressed metaphorically by flame and fire ; and that ... plays round the head ; but reaches not the heart . " Her beauty and absence , her kindness and cruelty , her disdain ...
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... plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as- The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . In ...
... plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as- The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And feast more upon thee , than thou on it . He sometimes extends his author's thoughts without improving them . In ...
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... plays , " writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trincalos , * buffoons , and bawds , prostituting the shame of that ministry which they had , or were near having , to the eyes of the ...
... plays , " writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trincalos , * buffoons , and bawds , prostituting the shame of that ministry which they had , or were near having , to the eyes of the ...
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