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... never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from ...
... never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . " This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from ...
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... never had resolution to tell his passion . we This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit ...
... never had resolution to tell his passion . we This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit ...
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... never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes him- self sometimes invited , and sometimes for- saken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his me- mory , for images which may exhibit the gayety of hope , or the ...
... never saw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes him- self sometimes invited , and sometimes for- saken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his me- mory , for images which may exhibit the gayety of hope , or the ...
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... never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endea- voured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ...
... never before so well expressed , " they certainly never attained , nor ever sought it ; for they endea- voured to be singular in their thoughts , and were careless of their diction . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly erroneous ...
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... never been said before . Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic , for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden ...
... never been said before . Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic , for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden ...
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