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... Hudibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast , as the images which it exhibits are domestic , the sentiments unborrowed and unexpected , and the strain of diction original and peculiar . We must not , however ...
... Hudibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast , as the images which it exhibits are domestic , the sentiments unborrowed and unexpected , and the strain of diction original and peculiar . We must not , however ...
Page 120
... Hudibras , and describing his person and habiliments , the author seems to labour with a tumultuous confusion of dissimilar ideas . He had read the history of the mock knights - errant ; he knew the notions and manners of a Presbyterian ...
... Hudibras , and describing his person and habiliments , the author seems to labour with a tumultuous confusion of dissimilar ideas . He had read the history of the mock knights - errant ; he knew the notions and manners of a Presbyterian ...
Page 122
... Hudibras was not a hasty effusion ; it was not produced by a sudden tumult of imagination , or a short paroxysm of violent labour . To accumulate such a mass of sentiments at the call of accidental desire , or of sudden necessity , is ...
... Hudibras was not a hasty effusion ; it was not produced by a sudden tumult of imagination , or a short paroxysm of violent labour . To accumulate such a mass of sentiments at the call of accidental desire , or of sudden necessity , is ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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