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... lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same year he published the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther , " in ...
... lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same year he published the " City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ridicule Dryden's " Hind and Panther , " in ...
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... lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the ...
... lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to descend from the dignity of the poet and statesman to the ...
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... lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His imitation of Spenser , which consists principally in I ween and I weet , without exclusion of later modes ...
... lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His imitation of Spenser , which consists principally in I ween and I weet , without exclusion of later modes ...
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... line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be still ...
... line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be still ...
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... lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If this part of his character suffers an abatement , it must be from the disproportion of his rhymes , which have not always sufficient ...
... lines , or entangled sentiments : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If this part of his character suffers an abatement , it must be from the disproportion of his rhymes , which have not always sufficient ...
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