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Pagina 23
... tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of his horse . Every man , that has ever undertaken to in- struct others , can tell ...
... tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of his horse . Every man , that has ever undertaken to in- struct others , can tell ...
Pagina 84
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a com- modious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a com- modious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things , and rejecting others ...
Pagina 356
... tell stories of heroes , and it is therefore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural but lately censured . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient ...
... tell stories of heroes , and it is therefore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural but lately censured . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient ...
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Milton | 15 |
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