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Pagina 90
... excellence , or laborious effort of the mind . There wanders an opinion among the readers of poetry , that one of these satires is an exercise of the school . Dryden says that he once translated it at school ; but not that he preserved ...
... excellence , or laborious effort of the mind . There wanders an opinion among the readers of poetry , that one of these satires is an exercise of the school . Dryden says that he once translated it at school ; but not that he preserved ...
Pagina 232
... excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practiced , taught him the Greek and ...
... excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , a Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practiced , taught him the Greek and ...
Pagina 357
... excellence can do only what is best . He finds out that these beings must be " somewhere , " and that “ all the question is whether man be in a wrong place . " Surely if , according to the poet's Leibnitian reasoning , we may infer that ...
... excellence can do only what is best . He finds out that these beings must be " somewhere , " and that “ all the question is whether man be in a wrong place . " Surely if , according to the poet's Leibnitian reasoning , we may infer that ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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