LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... easily believe to be undiffembled ; a man harraffed in one kingdom , and per- secuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undiffembled ; a man harraffed in one kingdom , and per- secuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
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... easily understood without examples ; and [ have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets , for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers , was eminently distinguished . AS the ...
... easily understood without examples ; and [ have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets , for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers , was eminently distinguished . AS the ...
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... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shews more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
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... easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical em- ́bellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile ...
... easily adopted , nor can the attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical em- ́bellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile ...
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... easily into the latter . The words do and did , which so much degrade in present estimation the line that admits them , were in the time of Cowley little censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at ...
... easily into the latter . The words do and did , which so much degrade in present estimation the line that admits them , were in the time of Cowley little censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at ...
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