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... endeavoured to supply by hyper- bole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations , of confused magni- ficence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be ...
... endeavoured to supply by hyper- bole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations , of confused magni- ficence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be ...
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... endeavoured to exhibit a general r : Nubject to change , will scarce be a type of this ; Now when the client , whose last hearing is To - morrow , sleeps ; when the condemned man , Who , when he opes his eyes , may shut them then Like ...
... endeavoured to exhibit a general r : Nubject to change , will scarce be a type of this ; Now when the client , whose last hearing is To - morrow , sleeps ; when the condemned man , Who , when he opes his eyes , may shut them then Like ...
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... endeavoured nor desired to deviate . Nor does " Comus " afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits likewise his power of description and his vigour of sentiment , em- ployed in the praise and defence of virtue . A work more ...
... endeavoured nor desired to deviate . Nor does " Comus " afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits likewise his power of description and his vigour of sentiment , em- ployed in the praise and defence of virtue . A work more ...
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... endeavoured the improvement of his mind as well as of his for- tune . That Clarendon might misjudge the mo- tive of his retirement is the more probable , be- cause he has evidently mistaken the commence- ment of his poetry , which he ...
... endeavoured the improvement of his mind as well as of his for- tune . That Clarendon might misjudge the mo- tive of his retirement is the more probable , be- cause he has evidently mistaken the commence- ment of his poetry , which he ...
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... endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts , so much more to express those thoughts with elocution . " It is written in quatrains , or heroic stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the " Gondibert " of ...
... endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts , so much more to express those thoughts with elocution . " It is written in quatrains , or heroic stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the " Gondibert " of ...
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