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... wrote , " which was never inserted in any collection of his Works ; " but he al- tered the expression when the Lives were collected into volumes . The satire was added to Cowley's Works by the particular di- rection of Dr. Johnson . N ...
... wrote , " which was never inserted in any collection of his Works ; " but he al- tered the expression when the Lives were collected into volumes . The satire was added to Cowley's Works by the particular di- rection of Dr. Johnson . N ...
Strona 13
... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such * By May's Poem we are here to understand a continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in the ...
... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such * By May's Poem we are here to understand a continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia to the death of Julius Cæsar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and historian , who flourished in the ...
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... wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
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... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest ...
... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest ...
Strona 25
... wrote poesies for rings , They , who above do various circles find , Say , like a ring , th ' equator Heaven does bind . When Heaven shall be adorn'd by thee , ( Which then more Heaven than ' tis will be ) ' Tis thou must write the ...
... wrote poesies for rings , They , who above do various circles find , Say , like a ring , th ' equator Heaven does bind . When Heaven shall be adorn'd by thee , ( Which then more Heaven than ' tis will be ) ' Tis thou must write the ...
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