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... language , from his predecessors . His phrases are original , but they are sometimes harsh ; as he inherited no elegances , none has he bequeathed . His expression has every mark of labor- ious study , the line seldom seems to have been ...
... language , from his predecessors . His phrases are original , but they are sometimes harsh ; as he inherited no elegances , none has he bequeathed . His expression has every mark of labor- ious study , the line seldom seems to have been ...
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... language , nor skill in versification : yet , if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in the " Mourning Bride " ALMERIA . It was a ...
... language , nor skill in versification : yet , if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in the " Mourning Bride " ALMERIA . It was a ...
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... a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a performance perfection cannot be expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such 44 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a performance perfection cannot be expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his censurers , which he expresses in language such 44 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the Poets ' Company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission poem , but a downright interloper . Those gentlemen , who ...
... language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the Poets ' Company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission poem , but a downright interloper . Those gentlemen , who ...
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... language . " As to its efficient cause , wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the con- stitution of the possessor of it , in which is found a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments , and an ...
... language . " As to its efficient cause , wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the con- stitution of the possessor of it , in which is found a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments , and an ...
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