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Page 88
... excellence ; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady ...
... excellence ; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion , and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints , and sometimes slowly improved by steady ...
Page 317
... excellence , or laborious effort of the mind . There wanders an opinion among the readers of poetry , that one of these satires is an exercise of the school . Dryden says that he once translated it at school ; but not that he preserved ...
... excellence , or laborious effort of the mind . There wanders an opinion among the readers of poetry , that one of these satires is an exercise of the school . Dryden says that he once translated it at school ; but not that he preserved ...
Page 323
... excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal to the first stanza of ...
... excellence beyond it , in some other of Dryden's works that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on Killigrew , it may be pronounced perhaps superior in the whole ; but without any single part , equal to the first stanza of ...
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