Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... reader how to oppose . He has written on the small - pox , with a vehement invective against inoculation ; on consumptions , the spleen , the gout , the rheumatism , the king's - evil , the dropsy , the jaundice , the stone , the ...
... reader how to oppose . He has written on the small - pox , with a vehement invective against inoculation ; on consumptions , the spleen , the gout , the rheumatism , the king's - evil , the dropsy , the jaundice , the stone , the ...
Page 405
... reader in our native commodity , by interspersing rural imagery , and incidental digressions , by cloath- ing small images in great words , and by all the writer's arts of delusion , the meanness naturally adhering , and the irreverence ...
... reader in our native commodity , by interspersing rural imagery , and incidental digressions , by cloath- ing small images in great words , and by all the writer's arts of delusion , the meanness naturally adhering , and the irreverence ...
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... reader will discover in it , " in- voluntary burlesque . " The northern blast , The shattered mast , The syrt , the whirlpool , and the rock , The breaking spout , The stars gone out , The boiling streight , the monster's shock . ' But ...
... reader will discover in it , " in- voluntary burlesque . " The northern blast , The shattered mast , The syrt , the whirlpool , and the rock , The breaking spout , The stars gone out , The boiling streight , the monster's shock . ' But ...
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