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Page 7
... knowledge may be sometimes found buried per- haps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
... knowledge may be sometimes found buried per- haps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
Page 8
... knowledge in some encomiastic verses : In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injured by extrinsic blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in yo * But you , of learning and religion ...
... knowledge in some encomiastic verses : In every thing there naturally grows A balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injured by extrinsic blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in yo * But you , of learning and religion ...
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... knowledge : Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gayety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorous- ly begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and hap- pily expressed ...
... knowledge : Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gayety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorous- ly begun , and happily concluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and hap- pily expressed ...
Page 13
... knowledge flows i upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , consi . dered as the verses of a lover , no man that ha ever loved , will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic ...
... knowledge flows i upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , consi . dered as the verses of a lover , no man that ha ever loved , will much commend them . They are neither courtly nor pathetic ...
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... knowledge , and great : fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of language gives the no- blest conceptions ...
... knowledge , and great : fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of language gives the no- blest conceptions ...
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