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Page 98
... diligence is enforced ; but when it is admitted that the faculties are suppressed by a cross wind , or a cloudy sky , the day is given up without resistance ; for who can con- tend with the course of Nature ? From such prepossessions ...
... diligence is enforced ; but when it is admitted that the faculties are suppressed by a cross wind , or a cloudy sky , the day is given up without resistance ; for who can con- tend with the course of Nature ? From such prepossessions ...
Page 283
... diligence of Boileau , whose Equivoque , a poem of only three hundred forty - six lines , took from his life eleven months to write it , and three years to revise it ! Part of this book of Fables is the first Iliad in English , intended ...
... diligence of Boileau , whose Equivoque , a poem of only three hundred forty - six lines , took from his life eleven months to write it , and three years to revise it ! Part of this book of Fables is the first Iliad in English , intended ...
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... diligence which he might allow himself somewhat to remit , when his name gave sanction to his positions , and his awe of the public was abated , partly by custom , and partly by success . It will not be easy to find , in all the ...
... diligence which he might allow himself somewhat to remit , when his name gave sanction to his positions , and his awe of the public was abated , partly by custom , and partly by success . It will not be easy to find , in all the ...
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Lives of the English Poets: The Prior Congreve, Blackmore and Pope Samuel Johnson No preview available - 2003 |
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