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Pagina 98
... acquaintance of many years , and which the enthusiasm of the writer might hinder him from perceiving . His last stanza has less emotion than the former ; but it is not less elegant in the diction . The con- clusion is vicious ; the ...
... acquaintance of many years , and which the enthusiasm of the writer might hinder him from perceiving . His last stanza has less emotion than the former ; but it is not less elegant in the diction . The con- clusion is vicious ; the ...
Pagina 201
... acquaintance than any man ever before attained , there being scarcely any person eminent on any account to whom he was not known , or whose character he was not in some degree able to delineate . To the acquisition of this extensive ...
... acquaintance than any man ever before attained , there being scarcely any person eminent on any account to whom he was not known , or whose character he was not in some degree able to delineate . To the acquisition of this extensive ...
Pagina 239
... acquaintance both with human and public affairs as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of four- teen in Windsor Forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources of knowledge by making himself ac ...
... acquaintance both with human and public affairs as is not easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of four- teen in Windsor Forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources of knowledge by making himself ac ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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