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Pagina xii
... perhaps above all others , George Rankine Luke of Balliol , after- wards Senior Student of Christ Church , a man of singular ability , high character , and enthusiastic energy , whose untimely death by drowning in the Isis in 1862 ...
... perhaps above all others , George Rankine Luke of Balliol , after- wards Senior Student of Christ Church , a man of singular ability , high character , and enthusiastic energy , whose untimely death by drowning in the Isis in 1862 ...
Pagina 22
... perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value , and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety though less copiousness of ...
... perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value , and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which have more propriety though less copiousness of ...
Pagina 23
... perhaps more desirous of 65 being admired than understood they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : ' The sacred tree midst the fair ...
... perhaps more desirous of 65 being admired than understood they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : ' The sacred tree midst the fair ...
Pagina 32
... perhaps to be pathetick : ' As men in hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills am I , • Grosart's Donne , i . 137 . 2 Eng . Poets , viii . 63 . 3 Ib . viii . 64 . Ib . viii . 95 . 5 Grosart's Donne , ii . 186 . • Ib . i ...
... perhaps to be pathetick : ' As men in hell are from diseases free , So from all other ills am I , • Grosart's Donne , i . 137 . 2 Eng . Poets , viii . 63 . 3 Ib . viii . 64 . Ib . viii . 95 . 5 Grosart's Donne , ii . 186 . • Ib . i ...
Pagina 39
... perhaps , if they would honestly declare their own perceptions , to far the greater part of those whom courtesy and ignorance are content to style the Learned . These little pieces will be found more finished in their kind 116 than any ...
... perhaps , if they would honestly declare their own perceptions , to far the greater part of those whom courtesy and ignorance are content to style the Learned . These little pieces will be found more finished in their kind 116 than any ...
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