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Page 43
... character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline , " Of tracing word by word , and line by line . " Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains , " Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; " Cheap vulgar ...
... character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline , " Of tracing word by word , and line by line . " Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains , " Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; " Cheap vulgar ...
Page 73
... character of the Long Parliament , and Assembly of Divines , was excluded ; of which the author gave a copy to the earl of Anglesea , and which being . afterwards published , has been since inserted in its proper place . The same year ...
... character of the Long Parliament , and Assembly of Divines , was excluded ; of which the author gave a copy to the earl of Anglesea , and which being . afterwards published , has been since inserted in its proper place . The same year ...
Page 76
... character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and after- wards , perhaps when he began to hate the Presbyterians ...
... character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and after- wards , perhaps when he began to hate the Presbyterians ...
Page 84
... character can justify , because no good man would willingly permit them to pass , however transiently , through his own mind . To make Satan speak as a rebel , without any such expressions as might taint the reader's imagination , was ...
... character can justify , because no good man would willingly permit them to pass , however transiently , through his own mind . To make Satan speak as a rebel , without any such expressions as might taint the reader's imagination , was ...
Page 91
... character , nor the combinations of concurring , or the perplexity of contending passions . He had read much , and knew what books could teach ; but had mingled little in the world , and was deficient in the knowledge which experience ...
... character , nor the combinations of concurring , or the perplexity of contending passions . He had read much , and knew what books could teach ; but had mingled little in the world , and was deficient in the knowledge which experience ...
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