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Page 31
... sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so much to move the affections , as to exercise the understanding . The Chronicle is a composition unrivalled and alone : such ...
... sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so much to move the affections , as to exercise the understanding . The Chronicle is a composition unrivalled and alone : such ...
Page 246
... sufficiently defective to vindicate the criticks . I wish that there were no necessity of following the progress of ... sufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined ...
... sufficiently defective to vindicate the criticks . I wish that there were no necessity of following the progress of ... sufficient certainty of a favourable hearing ; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies . He then joined ...
Page 341
... sufficient , he did not stop to make better ; and allowed himself to leave many parts unfinished , in confidence that the good lines would overbalance the bad . What he had once written , he dismissed from his thoughts ; and , I believe ...
... sufficient , he did not stop to make better ; and allowed himself to leave many parts unfinished , in confidence that the good lines would overbalance the bad . What he had once written , he dismissed from his thoughts ; and , I believe ...
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