Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... said the atheist , " I " can always answer , because I always " know whence they have their argu- " ments , which I have read an hundred " times ; but that fellow Young is con- " tinually peftering me with fomething " of his own ...
... said the atheist , " I " can always answer , because I always " know whence they have their argu- " ments , which I have read an hundred " times ; but that fellow Young is con- " tinually peftering me with fomething " of his own ...
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... said , in his Essay on Lyrick Poetry , prefixed to the Poem , " For the more harmony likewise I chose " the frequent return of rhyme , which " laid me under great difficulties . But " difficulties , overcome , give grace and " pleasure ...
... said , in his Essay on Lyrick Poetry , prefixed to the Poem , " For the more harmony likewise I chose " the frequent return of rhyme , which " laid me under great difficulties . But " difficulties , overcome , give grace and " pleasure ...
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... it . He " then proceeded to open the fountain " of that heart , from whence goodness " had fo long flowed as from a copious Doctor , " said he , " you 6 : fpring . B << fhall 酱" fhall be my confeffor : when I first LYTTELTON , 17.
... it . He " then proceeded to open the fountain " of that heart , from whence goodness " had fo long flowed as from a copious Doctor , " said he , " you 6 : fpring . B << fhall 酱" fhall be my confeffor : when I first LYTTELTON , 17.
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... said . Would you have 66 any more reafons ? An interval of above " forty years has pretty well destroyed " the charm . A dead lord ranks with " commoners : vanity is no longer in- " terested in the matter ; for a new road is become an ...
... said . Would you have 66 any more reafons ? An interval of above " forty years has pretty well destroyed " the charm . A dead lord ranks with " commoners : vanity is no longer in- " terested in the matter ; for a new road is become an ...
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... age , when they are fuppofed to have lived ; and the 500 fianzas , said to be loft , may be imagined to contain the re- mainder of their long - winded expoftulation . M. And And fo God fave our noble King , And guard GRA Y. 47.
... age , when they are fuppofed to have lived ; and the 500 fianzas , said to be loft , may be imagined to contain the re- mainder of their long - winded expoftulation . M. And And fo God fave our noble King , And guard GRA Y. 47.
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