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... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of “ The Guardian " for the stage , he produced it * under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman street . " † It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterward censured as a satire ...
... thought proper , fitted his old comedy of “ The Guardian " for the stage , he produced it * under the title of " The Cutter of Coleman street . " † It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterward censured as a satire ...
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... thought , but was 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 ...
... thought , but was 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 ...
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... thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so ... thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the series of ...
... thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such minuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so ... thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous and happy ; the series of ...
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... thought naturally produced famili- arity of language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues long the same ... thoughts true in one sense of the expression , and false in the other . Addison's representation is sufficiently ...
... thought naturally produced famili- arity of language , and the familiar part of lan- guage continues long the same ... thoughts true in one sense of the expression , and false in the other . Addison's representation is sufficiently ...
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... thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley . Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et ...
... thought is more generally , and there- fore more poetically expressed by Casimir , a writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley . Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas , Pars adhuc nido latet , et ...
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