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The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry .
The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry .
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After about half a century of forced thoughts , and rugged metre , some advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham ; they had shewn that long discourses in rhyme grew more pleasing when they were ...
After about half a century of forced thoughts , and rugged metre , some advances towards nature and harmony had been already made by Waller and Denham ; they had shewn that long discourses in rhyme grew more pleasing when they were ...
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real interest , the care of pleasing the Author of his being . Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of a vision , sometimes appears half - veiled in an allegory ; sometimes attracts regard in the robes of fancy , and sometimes steps ...
real interest , the care of pleasing the Author of his being . Truth is shewn sometimes as the phantom of a vision , sometimes appears half - veiled in an allegory ; sometimes attracts regard in the robes of fancy , and sometimes steps ...
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