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Pagina 70
... equal to his King , could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very credible . He taught only the stale doctrine of authority , and the un ...
... equal to his King , could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very credible . He taught only the stale doctrine of authority , and the un ...
Pagina 72
... equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours , who envy the distinctions of merit greater than their own , or who have yet to learn that in the coalition of human society nothing is more pleasing to God , or more agree- able to reason ...
... equal qualifications , aspire to equal honours , who envy the distinctions of merit greater than their own , or who have yet to learn that in the coalition of human society nothing is more pleasing to God , or more agree- able to reason ...
Pagina 255
... equal to the first stanza of the other . It is said to have cost Dryden a fortnight's labour ; but it does not want its negligences ; some of the lines are without correspondent rhymes ; a defect which I never detected but after an ...
... equal to the first stanza of the other . It is said to have cost Dryden a fortnight's labour ; but it does not want its negligences ; some of the lines are without correspondent rhymes ; a defect which I never detected but after an ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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