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Pagina 51
... present estimation the line that admits them , were in the time of Cowley little censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will ...
... present estimation the line that admits them , were in the time of Cowley little censured or avoided ; how often he used them , and with how bad an effect , at least to our ears , will appear by a passage , in which every reader will ...
Pagina 238
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that 238 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that 238 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pagina 387
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to SPRAT 387.
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to SPRAT 387.
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