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... once quoted ; by Rymer it has once been praised ; and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , it has once been imitated ; nor do I recol- lect much other notice from its publication till now in the whole succession of English literature . Of this ...
... once quoted ; by Rymer it has once been praised ; and by Dryden , in Mac Flecknoe , it has once been imitated ; nor do I recol- lect much other notice from its publication till now in the whole succession of English literature . Of this ...
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... once knew considered as a pollution of its walls . " Milton has the reputation of having been in his youth emi- nently beautiful , so as to have been called the Lady of his college . His hair , which was of a light brown , parted at the ...
... once knew considered as a pollution of its walls . " Milton has the reputation of having been in his youth emi- nently beautiful , so as to have been called the Lady of his college . His hair , which was of a light brown , parted at the ...
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... once reading to Dodington , who being himself a reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hands , and told him that he did not understand his own verses . The biographer ...
... once reading to Dodington , who being himself a reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hands , and told him that he did not understand his own verses . The biographer ...
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