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... nature , Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resemblance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they both exhibit the agency of ...
... nature , Cowley certainly errs , by introducing pedantry far more frequently than Tasso . I know not , indeed , why they should be compared ; for the resemblance of Cowley's work to Tasso's is only that they both exhibit the agency of ...
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... natural and beautifulwozie ai bu 18 to 279126M From Florence he went too Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he ... nature , " he might " leave something so writ- ten to aftertimes , as they should not willingly de J201 foda let it ...
... natural and beautifulwozie ai bu 18 to 279126M From Florence he went too Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he ... nature , " he might " leave something so writ- ten to aftertimes , as they should not willingly de J201 foda let it ...
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... nature , and the sciences which that know- ledge 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 know- ledge 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 ...
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... nature to speculations upon life ; but the innova- etors whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants , or the motions of the stars : กร -31.00 ...
... nature to speculations upon life ; but the innova- etors whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants , or the motions of the stars : กร -31.00 ...
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... 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 It were injurious to omit , league of ...
... 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 It were injurious to omit , league of ...
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