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... 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 stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
... 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 stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
Page 305
... pleasing when they were broken into couplets , and that verse consisted not only in the number but the arrangement of syllables . But though they did much , who can deny that they left much to do ? Their works were not many , nor were ...
... pleasing when they were broken into couplets , and that verse consisted not only in the number but the arrangement of syllables . But though they did much , who can deny that they left much to do ? Their works were not many , nor were ...
Page 466
... pleasing Mille habet ornatus , mille decenter habet . His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal , on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity , and exact without apparent elaboration ...
... pleasing Mille habet ornatus , mille decenter habet . His prose is the model of the middle style ; on grave subjects not formal , on light occasions not groveling ; pure without scrupulosity , and exact without apparent elaboration ...
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