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... character separated from its adjacent fault by so nice a of a good translator : I bor yatbostenybare line of limitation ; the different parts of the sen- so no Not the effect of poetry , but pains Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness ...
... character separated from its adjacent fault by so nice a of a good translator : I bor yatbostenybare line of limitation ; the different parts of the sen- so no Not the effect of poetry , but pains Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness ...
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... character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . : His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians ...
... character of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . : His theological opinions are said to have been first Calvinistical ; and afterwards , perhaps when he began to hate the presbyterians ...
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... character , and the tendency of the passions , either single or combined ; and physiology must supply him with illustrations and images . To put these materials to poetical use , is required an imagination capable of paint- ing nature ...
... character , and the tendency of the passions , either single or combined ; and physiology must supply him with illustrations and images . To put these materials to poetical use , is required an imagination capable of paint- ing nature ...
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... character of Moloch appears , both in the battle and the coun- cil , with exact consistency . To Adam and to Eve are ... characters , are , for the greater part , unexceptionably just . Splendid passages , containing lessons of mo ...
... character of Moloch appears , both in the battle and the coun- cil , with exact consistency . To Adam and to Eve are ... characters , are , for the greater part , unexceptionably just . Splendid passages , containing lessons of mo ...
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... character Butler was admitted into that lady's service , how long he continued in it , and why he left it , is , like the other incidents of his life , utterly unknown . The vicissitudes of his condition placed him afterwards in the ...
... character Butler was admitted into that lady's service , how long he continued in it , and why he left it , is , like the other incidents of his life , utterly unknown . The vicissitudes of his condition placed him afterwards in the ...
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