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... thing is distinctly known , but all is shown con- fused and enlarged through the mist of pane- gyric . great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his ...
... thing is distinctly known , but all is shown con- fused and enlarged through the mist of pane- gyric . great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his ...
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... thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now ab- stain from believing , that an agreement will be made ; all people upon the place incline to that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
... thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now ab- stain from believing , that an agreement will be made ; all people upon the place incline to that of union . The Scotch will moderate ...
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... the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in , the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a life is given in the Bio- tions . As they were wholly employed on some- thing COWLEY .
... the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in , the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a life is given in the Bio- tions . As they were wholly employed on some- thing COWLEY .
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... things subject by their na- ture to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes ... thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operatious ...
... things subject by their na- ture to the choice of man , has its changes and fashions , and at different times takes ... thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operatious ...
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... thing unexpected and surprising , they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive ... things cannot have escaped former observation . Their attempts were al- ways analytic ; they broke every image into ...
... thing unexpected and surprising , they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive ... things cannot have escaped former observation . Their attempts were al- ways analytic ; they broke every image into ...
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