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... sufficiently ostentatious , but were explained by inscriptions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the King ; from whom , after a long audience ...
... sufficiently ostentatious , but were explained by inscriptions so arrogant , that Boileau and Racine thought it necessary to make them more simple . He was in the following year at Loo with the King ; from whom , after a long audience ...
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... sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . " Alma " is written in professed imitation of " Hudibras , " and has at least one accidental resemblance : " Hudibras " wants a plan ...
... sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . " Alma " is written in professed imitation of " Hudibras , " and has at least one accidental resemblance : " Hudibras " wants a plan ...
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... sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon re- lates the successive vicissitudes of his own mind , without the intervention of any other speaker , or the mention of any other agent ...
... sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon re- lates the successive vicissitudes of his own mind , without the intervention of any other speaker , or the mention of any other agent ...
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... sufficient consonance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cowley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into heroic poetry . He had apparently such rectitude of judgment as ...
... sufficient consonance , and from the admission of broken lines into his " Solomon ; " but perhaps he thought , like Cowley , that hemistichs ought to be admitted into heroic poetry . He had apparently such rectitude of judgment as ...
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... sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment , the plot is busy and ...
... sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment , the plot is busy and ...
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