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... original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is ...
... original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is ...
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... original import means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped ...
... original import means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped ...
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... original sin , Such charms thy beauty wears , as might Desires in dying confest saints excite . Thou with strange adultery Dost in each breast a brothel keep ; Awake all men do lust for thee , And some enjoy thee when they sleep . As ...
... original sin , Such charms thy beauty wears , as might Desires in dying confest saints excite . Thou with strange adultery Dost in each breast a brothel keep ; Awake all men do lust for thee , And some enjoy thee when they sleep . As ...
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... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , " is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , " is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as The table , free for every guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
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... original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be ... originals and themselves . et moyo groz 10 abo Denham saw the better etter way , but has not pur- ironbaring na His ...
... original author . He seems to have been , at least among us , the author of a species of composition that may be ... originals and themselves . et moyo groz 10 abo Denham saw the better etter way , but has not pur- ironbaring na His ...
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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