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... manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . • Consulting , the ...
... manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this great occasion the Virgilian Lots , and to have given some credit to the answer of his oracle . • Consulting , the ...
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... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of ...
... manner resembled that of Donne more in the ruggedness of his lines than in the cast of his sentiments . When their reputation was high , they had undoubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of ...
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... manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversior , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is prac ...
... manners and real life , is read from age to age with equal pleasure . The artifices of inversior , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or meanings of words are introduced , is prac ...
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... manner of speaking " . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I ...
... manner of speaking " . He was therefore not at all restrained to his expressions , nor much to his sentiments ; nothing was required of him , but not to write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I ...
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... manner of sub- jects . " But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of the stanzas , by which ...
... manner of sub- jects . " But he should have remembered , that what is fit for every thing can fit nothing well . The great pleasure of verse arises from the known measure of the lines , and uniform struc- ture of the stanzas , by which ...
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