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... say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation , yet who has made any diffi- culty of affigning to Death a dart and the power of striking ? In fettling the order of his works ...
... say that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation , yet who has made any diffi- culty of affigning to Death a dart and the power of striking ? In fettling the order of his works ...
Pagina 15
... says , " To conclude this act with " the most rumbling piece of nonfenfe " spoken yet , 66 " To flattering lightning our feign'd fmiles " conform , " Which back'd with thunder do but gild a " ftorm . Conform a fmile to lightning , make ...
... says , " To conclude this act with " the most rumbling piece of nonfenfe " spoken yet , 66 " To flattering lightning our feign'd fmiles " conform , " Which back'd with thunder do but gild a " ftorm . Conform a fmile to lightning , make ...
Pagina 29
... say that his answer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expofe Dryden's me- thod of analyfing his expreffions , he tries the fame experiment upon the defcription of the ships in the Indian Emperor , of which however ...
... say that his answer is equal to the cenfure , is no high commendation . To expofe Dryden's me- thod of analyfing his expreffions , he tries the fame experiment upon the defcription of the ships in the Indian Emperor , of which however ...
Pagina 43
... says , happened to him when he told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . " The defign , " fays he , “ you you know is great , " the story English , and neither too near " the present times , nor too distant from them . ' All for ...
... says , happened to him when he told it more plainly in his preface to Juvenal . " The defign , " fays he , “ you you know is great , " the story English , and neither too near " the present times , nor too distant from them . ' All for ...
Pagina 68
... says Bayes , little more is necessary than to leave off a correspondence with the other fex , which , to a wife man , is no greater a punish- ment than it would be to a fanatic parfon to be forbid feeing the Cheats and the Committee ...
... says Bayes , little more is necessary than to leave off a correspondence with the other fex , which , to a wife man , is no greater a punish- ment than it would be to a fanatic parfon to be forbid feeing the Cheats and the Committee ...
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