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... Sometimes he indulges himself in a digression , always conceived with his natural exuberance , Describing an undisciplined army , after hav- and commonly , even where it is not long , con- ing said with elegance , • His forces seem'd no ...
... Sometimes he indulges himself in a digression , always conceived with his natural exuberance , Describing an undisciplined army , after hav- and commonly , even where it is not long , con- ing said with elegance , • His forces seem'd no ...
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... sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortui- tous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or ...
... sometimes swelled his verse to unexpected and inevitable grandeur ; but his excellence of this kind is merely fortui- tous : he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or ...
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... sometimes sweet and sonorousfcia es arr . Hanze 1. execu9GET 112 He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet bid him go ...
... sometimes sweet and sonorousfcia es arr . Hanze 1. execu9GET 112 He says of the Messiah , Round the whole earth his dreaded name shall sound , And reach to worlds that must not yet be found . In another place , of David , Yet bid him go ...
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... sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry • od ved serM The four verses , which , since Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : Lw us bid vedenie STE BISCI O could ...
... sometimes such as will not bear a rigorous inquiry • od ved serM The four verses , which , since Dryden has commended them , almost every writer for a century past has imitated , are generally known : Lw us bid vedenie STE BISCI O could ...
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... sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the Countess Dowager of Derby , where the " Arcades " made part of a dramatic vti - 1377 or tisl sd god entertainment . 30 ton , at this time to ...
... sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Harefield , the house of the Countess Dowager of Derby , where the " Arcades " made part of a dramatic vti - 1377 or tisl sd god entertainment . 30 ton , at this time to ...
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