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Pagina 16
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were ea- sily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr. Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were ea- sily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
Pagina 18
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , with- out interest and without emotion . Their courtship . was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sor- row . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never ...
... remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , with- out interest and without emotion . Their courtship . was void of fondness , and their lamentation of sor- row . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had never ...
Pagina 20
... REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently dis ...
... REMARKS are not easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently dis ...
Pagina 32
... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply com- modious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like ...
... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply com- modious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like ...
Pagina 36
... remark- ably as it burns ; as therefore this property was not assigned it by chance , the mind must be thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such mi- nuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so much to move ...
... remark- ably as it burns ; as therefore this property was not assigned it by chance , the mind must be thought sufficiently at ease that could attend to such mi- nuteness of physiology . But the power of Cowley is not so much to move ...
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