LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from ...
... never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from ...
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... never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for B 2 the In the first ...
... never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for B 2 the In the first ...
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... never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of ...
... never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of ...
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... never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to ... never before so well expressed , " they certainly never at- tained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be ...
... never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to ... never before so well expressed , " they certainly never at- tained , nor ever sought it ; for they endeavoured to be ...
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... never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen . Their thoughts are often new , but seldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they just ; and the reader , far from ...
... never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen . Their thoughts are often new , but seldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they just ; and the reader , far from ...
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