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Page 4
... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something en- comiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained ...
... verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something en- comiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such as certainly gained ...
Page 6
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . fall , that I am yet unable to move or ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . fall , that I am yet unable to move or ...
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... verses we have an allusion to a Rabbinical opinion concerning manna ; Variety I ask not : give me on To live perpetually upon . , The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shows his medicinal ...
... verses we have an allusion to a Rabbinical opinion concerning manna ; Variety I ask not : give me on To live perpetually upon . , The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shows his medicinal ...
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... verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous ...
... verses to Lord Falkland , whom every man of his time was proud to praise , there are , as there must be in all Cowley's compositions , some striking thoughts , but they are not well wrought . His elegy on Sir Henry Wotton is vigorous ...
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... verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed ...
... verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly think not only above their attainment , but above their ambition . To the Miscellanies succeed ...
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