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... shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it ... shew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflec- tion upon Man as a Microcosm : If men be ...
... shews his medicinal knowledge in some encomiastick verses : In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it ... shew'd me you . DONNE . Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflec- tion upon Man as a Microcosm : If men be ...
Page 258
... shew , that by studied misconstruction every thing may be equally represented as ridiculous . After so much of Dryden's elegant animadversions , justice requires that something of Settle's should be ex- hibited . The following ...
... shew , that by studied misconstruction every thing may be equally represented as ridiculous . After so much of Dryden's elegant animadversions , justice requires that something of Settle's should be ex- hibited . The following ...
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... shew that the English language might be very happily adapted to musick . This was impudently opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera ; and , what cannot be told without indignation , the intruders had such interest with ...
... shew that the English language might be very happily adapted to musick . This was impudently opposed by those who were employed in the Italian opera ; and , what cannot be told without indignation , the intruders had such interest with ...
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