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Page 40
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae Anglicanae ...
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae Anglicanae ...
Page 239
... write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is seldom , when people are necessitated to it . I have known men row , and use very hard labour , for diver- sion , which , if they had been tied to , they would have thought ...
... write , by the very pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is seldom , when people are necessitated to it . I have known men row , and use very hard labour , for diver- sion , which , if they had been tied to , they would have thought ...
Page 387
... write its history , which he published in 1667. This is one of the few books which selec- tion of sentiment and elegance of diction have been able to preserve , though written upon a subject flux and transitory . The History of the ...
... write its history , which he published in 1667. This is one of the few books which selec- tion of sentiment and elegance of diction have been able to preserve , though written upon a subject flux and transitory . The History of the ...
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