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Page 137
... necessary adjunct of true poetry . But perhaps , of poetry as a mental operation , metre or musick is no necessary adjunct : it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been discriminated in all languages ; and in languages ...
... necessary adjunct of true poetry . But perhaps , of poetry as a mental operation , metre or musick is no necessary adjunct : it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been discriminated in all languages ; and in languages ...
Page 192
... necessary , for his support , to sell his wife's jewels ; and being reduced , as he said , at last to the rump jewel , he solicited from Cromwell per- mission to return , and obtained it by the interest of Colonel Scroop , to whom his ...
... necessary , for his support , to sell his wife's jewels ; and being reduced , as he said , at last to the rump jewel , he solicited from Cromwell per- mission to return , and obtained it by the interest of Colonel Scroop , to whom his ...
Page 272
... necessary to the success of every poetical or literary performance , and therefore he was engaged to contribute something , whatever it might be , to many publications . He prefixed the Life of Polybius to the translation of Sir Henry ...
... necessary to the success of every poetical or literary performance , and therefore he was engaged to contribute something , whatever it might be , to many publications . He prefixed the Life of Polybius to the translation of Sir Henry ...
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