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... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature gives reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son ...
... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature gives reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son ...
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... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall ...
... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those however who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they fall ...
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... nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of ...
... nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of ...
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... natures fall Then from those wombs of stars , the bride's bright - an eyes ( 940 ) Jo Edïow smɔ ¿ lpad At every glance a constellation flies Thus he represents the meditations of a lover : Though. Great Nature's well - set clock in ...
... natures fall Then from those wombs of stars , the bride's bright - an eyes ( 940 ) Jo Edïow smɔ ¿ lpad At every glance a constellation flies Thus he represents the meditations of a lover : Though. Great Nature's well - set clock in ...
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... natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very dif- ferent modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced famili- arity of language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues ...
... natural , and nature is uniform . Men have been wise in very dif- ferent modes ; but they have always laughed the same way . Levity of thought naturally produced famili- arity of language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dorset Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young