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... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever he ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , are told by Barnes , * who had means enough of information , that , whatever he ...
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... excellence . W is For the rejection splay it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the of and the power fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaf- fection he pates ...
... excellence . W is For the rejection splay it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the of and the power fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaf- fection he pates ...
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... excellence no other poet chance , the mind must be thought sufficiently has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , at ease that could attend to such minuteness of among many good , is one of the most hazardous physiology . But the ...
... excellence no other poet chance , the mind must be thought sufficiently has hitherto afforded . To choose the best , at ease that could attend to such minuteness of among many good , is one of the most hazardous physiology . But the ...
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... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spen- ser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spen- ser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
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... excellence of this kind is merely fortui- tous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or asperity . His contractions are often rugged and harsh : One flings a mountain ...
... excellence of this kind is merely fortui- tous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or asperity . His contractions are often rugged and harsh : One flings a mountain ...
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