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... numbers- and all these raised to such a height as can scarcely be found in any other English composition . It is not , however , without faults ; some lines are inelegant or improper , and too many are irreli- giously licentious . The ...
... numbers- and all these raised to such a height as can scarcely be found in any other English composition . It is not , however , without faults ; some lines are inelegant or improper , and too many are irreli- giously licentious . The ...
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... number is very small of those who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , ex- cept the music of the numbers . If more help was wanting , he had the poetical translations of Eobanus Hessus , an unwearied writer of Latin verses ...
... number is very small of those who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , ex- cept the music of the numbers . If more help was wanting , he had the poetical translations of Eobanus Hessus , an unwearied writer of Latin verses ...
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... numbers to another sense : While many a merry tale , and many a song , Cheer'd the rough road , we wish'd the rough road long ; The rough road then , returning in a round , Mock'd our impatient steps , for all was fairy ground . We have ...
... numbers to another sense : While many a merry tale , and many a song , Cheer'd the rough road , we wish'd the rough road long ; The rough road then , returning in a round , Mock'd our impatient steps , for all was fairy ground . We have ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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