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Page 6
... whole en- deavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
... whole en- deavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
Page 7
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in pos ...
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in pos ...
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... whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and ...
... whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man atheist , and ...
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... whole Da- videis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . " There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read ...
... whole Da- videis is , however , not much to be regretted ; for in this undertaking , Cowley is , tacitly at least , confessed to have miscarried . " There are not many examples of so great a work , produced by an author generally read ...
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... whole work is very imperfectly shown by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shown but upon few occasions , the full ex- tent and the nice discriminations ...
... whole work is very imperfectly shown by the third part . The duration of an unfinished action cannot be known . Of characters either not yet introduced , or shown but upon few occasions , the full ex- tent and the nice discriminations ...
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