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... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or am- bition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ...
... language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or am- bition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ...
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... language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of ...
... language ; Cowley , without much loss of purity or elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of ...
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... language . If by a more noble and more adequate con- ception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknow- ledged to be just ; if it be that which ...
... language . If by a more noble and more adequate con- ception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new , that which , though not obvious , is , upon its first production , acknow- ledged to be just ; if it be that which ...
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... language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversior , by ...
... language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues long the same : the dialogue of comedy , when it is transcribed from popular manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversior , by ...
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... language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban Bard were to his contem- poraries : Begin the song , and strike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come , a numerous and well- fitted quire , All hand in hand do ...
... language be forgiven , his strains are such as those of the Theban Bard were to his contem- poraries : Begin the song , and strike the living lyre : Lo how the years to come , a numerous and well- fitted quire , All hand in hand do ...
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