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Page 15
... reader of this will be inclined to cry out with Prior , " Ye critics , say , How poor to this was Pindar's style ! " Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan songs what antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at ...
... reader of this will be inclined to cry out with Prior , " Ye critics , say , How poor to this was Pindar's style ! " Even those who cannot perhaps find in the Isthmian or Nemæan songs what antiquity has disposed them to expect , will at ...
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... reader feels himself weary with this useless talk of an allegorical being . that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a distinct species of mankind , that lived and ac- ted with ...
... reader feels himself weary with this useless talk of an allegorical being . that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of existence of a distinct species of mankind , that lived and ac- ted with ...
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... readers far short of sanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not be borne in the present age , when devotion ... reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of language :す Where ...
... readers far short of sanctity are frequently offended ; and which would not be borne in the present age , when devotion ... reader will lament to see just and noble thoughts defrauded of their praise by inelegance of language :す Where ...
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... reader is shifted off with what he can get ; 349 O how transform❜d ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'☎ ** - Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : * 11 1477 1100 From thence a thousand lesser poets sprung Like petty princes ...
... reader is shifted off with what he can get ; 349 O how transform❜d ! How much unlike that Hector , who return'☎ ** - Clad in Achilles ' spoils ! And again : * 11 1477 1100 From thence a thousand lesser poets sprung Like petty princes ...
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... reader , that this relation of Voltaire's was perfectly true , as far as relates to the existence of the play which he speaks of , namely , the Adams of Andraini ; but it is still a question whether Milton ever saw it.-J. B. F ting ...
... reader , that this relation of Voltaire's was perfectly true , as far as relates to the existence of the play which he speaks of , namely , the Adams of Andraini ; but it is still a question whether Milton ever saw it.-J. B. F ting ...
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