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... forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : کی " I ཻ་ T Thou seest me here ...
... forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dryden's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : کی " I ཻ་ T Thou seest me here ...
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... formed by nature for one kind of writ- ing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the fes- tive . the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows i upon his page , so that the reader is commonly ...
... formed by nature for one kind of writ- ing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the fes- tive . the plenitude of the writer's knowledge flows i upon his page , so that the reader is commonly ...
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... forming - lie , Close in their sacred secundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley . Omnibus Mundi Dominator ...
... forming - lie , Close in their sacred secundine asleep . The same thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley . Omnibus Mundi Dominator ...
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... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
... formed rather from the Odyssey than the Iliad : and many artifices of diversification are employed , with the skill of a man acquainted with the best models . The past is recalled by narration , and the future anticipated by vision ...
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... formed of mono- syllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorousfcia es arr . Hanze 1. execu9GET 112 He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found ...
... formed of mono- syllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorousfcia es arr . Hanze 1. execu9GET 112 He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found ...
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