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... common soldier and his wife in Long Acre before he went to bed , not from any remains of the lowness of his original , as one said , but I suppose that his faculties- 666 -strained to the height , In that celestial colloquy sublime ...
... common soldier and his wife in Long Acre before he went to bed , not from any remains of the lowness of his original , as one said , but I suppose that his faculties- 666 -strained to the height , In that celestial colloquy sublime ...
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... it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 73 LIVES OF THE POETS . 22.
... it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 73 LIVES OF THE POETS . 22.
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... common master . His poem on the Battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza . An uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the ...
... common master . His poem on the Battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza . An uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the ...
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... common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigram- matists , and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure authors ...
... common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigram- matists , and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure authors ...
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... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it apparently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty , therefore , is to conceive how this knowledge can be ...
... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it apparently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty , therefore , is to conceive how this knowledge can be ...
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