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... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was soon distin- guished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was soon distin- guished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
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... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect . Cowley of having consulted on this ...
... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect . Cowley of having consulted on this ...
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... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contradistinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it be ...
... present , but hardly appropriated . The ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contradistinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it be ...
Pagina 38
... present day , he has given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Ana- creon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has ad- mitted the decoration of some ...
... present day , he has given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , representation , having retained their spriteliness , but lost their simplicity . The Ana- creon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has ad- mitted the decoration of some ...
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... present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a de- ciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was ...
... present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a de- ciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was ...
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