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Page 28
... Nature mount , and let The coachman Art be set ; And let the airy footmen , running all beside , Make a long row of goodly pride ; Figures , conceits , raptures , and sentences , In a well - worded dress , And innocent loves , and ...
... Nature mount , and let The coachman Art be set ; And let the airy footmen , running all beside , Make a long row of goodly pride ; Figures , conceits , raptures , and sentences , In a well - worded dress , And innocent loves , and ...
Page 36
... Nature is ) Yet things well worth his toil he gains : And does his charge and labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way . Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : COWLEY ...
... Nature is ) Yet things well worth his toil he gains : And does his charge and labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way . Some that have deeper digg'd Love's mine than I , Say , where his centric happiness doth lie : COWLEY ...
Page 42
... nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is less exhilarating than the ludicrousness of Denham : He does not fail for want In Grammont's Memoirs many circumstances are related both of his marriage and his frensy very ...
... nature , or by early habits , debarred from it . Nothing is less exhilarating than the ludicrousness of Denham : He does not fail for want In Grammont's Memoirs many circumstances are related both of his marriage and his frensy very ...
Page 54
... nature , and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first ...
... nature , and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first ...
Page 57
... nature , more inclinable to reconciliation than to perseverance " in anger or revenge , and partly the strong intercession of friends on both " sides , soon brought him to an act of oblivion , and a firm league of peace . " It were ...
... nature , more inclinable to reconciliation than to perseverance " in anger or revenge , and partly the strong intercession of friends on both " sides , soon brought him to an act of oblivion , and a firm league of peace . " It were ...
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