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... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry , they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better ...
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... Learning , on a question which Learning only could decide . In 1699 was published by him A Journey to London , after the method of Dr. Martin Lister , who had pub- lished A Journey to Paris . And in 1700 he satirized the Royal Society ...
... Learning , on a question which Learning only could decide . In 1699 was published by him A Journey to London , after the method of Dr. Martin Lister , who had pub- lished A Journey to Paris . And in 1700 he satirized the Royal Society ...
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... learning or the critick's penetration . His next paper of verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shewn by his version of a ...
... learning or the critick's penetration . His next paper of verses contained a character of the principal English poets , inscribed to Henry Sacheverell , who was then , if not a poet , a writer of verses ; as is shewn by his version of a ...
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