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Page 6
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
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... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and without emotion . Their courtship was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sorrow . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been ...
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... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison ...
... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison ...
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... remarks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time ac- cessions to English literature , and show such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing ...
... remarks , which his prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time ac- cessions to English literature , and show such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing ...
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... to imagine how he could fill eight books more without practising again the same modes of disposing his matter : and perhaps the per- ception of this growing incumbrance inclined Jonson and Donne , as Dr. Hurd remarks , of COWLEY . 17.
... to imagine how he could fill eight books more without practising again the same modes of disposing his matter : and perhaps the per- ception of this growing incumbrance inclined Jonson and Donne , as Dr. Hurd remarks , of COWLEY . 17.
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