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Page 305
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
... easily escape a manner , such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same , he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
Page 376
... easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present ques- tion required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquisitions , made in a state of apparent negligence and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours ...
... easily collected . He therefore always knew what the present ques- tion required ; and when his friends expressed their wonder at his acquisitions , made in a state of apparent negligence and drunkenness , he never discovered his hours ...
Page 464
... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; enquiry was awakened , and com- prehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from his time to our own , life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; enquiry was awakened , and com- prehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from his time to our own , life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
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