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... writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ... write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum Sapienti . ' " " He did not long enjoy the pleasure , or suffer ...
... writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ... write this in pain , and can say no more : Verbum Sapienti . ' " " He did not long enjoy the pleasure , or suffer ...
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... writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of ... write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor as ...
... writing , which was , I believe , borrowed from Marino and his followers , had been recommended by the example of ... write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor as ...
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... write to be admired . " The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he ... writer's knowledge flows i upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But ...
... write to be admired . " The Anacreontics therefore of Cowley give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he ... writer's knowledge flows i upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But ...
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... writer , whom , without thinking on a woman but as the subject for his task , we some- times esteem as learned , and ... write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I think , above the original in ...
... writer , whom , without thinking on a woman but as the subject for his task , we some- times esteem as learned , and ... write as Pindar would not have written . Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I think , above the original in ...
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... writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley . Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas ... write like Pin- dar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin ; a poem ...
... writer who has many of the beauties and faults of Cowley . Omnibus Mundi Dominator horis Aptat urgendas per inane pennas ... write like Pin- dar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin ; a poem ...
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