The DunciadM. Cooper, 1970 - 235 pages |
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Page 55
... thought to thought , a vast profound ! Plung'd for his fenfe , but found no bottom there , 120 Yet wrote and flounder'd on , in mere despair . Round him much Embryo , much Abortion lay , Much future Ode , and abdicated Play ; REMARKS ...
... thought to thought , a vast profound ! Plung'd for his fenfe , but found no bottom there , 120 Yet wrote and flounder'd on , in mere despair . Round him much Embryo , much Abortion lay , Much future Ode , and abdicated Play ; REMARKS ...
Page 207
... thought proper to feek for the cause of gravitation in a cer- tain elaftic fluid , which pervaded all body . By this means , instead of really advan- cing in natural enquiries , we were brought back again by this ingenious expedient to ...
... thought proper to feek for the cause of gravitation in a cer- tain elaftic fluid , which pervaded all body . By this means , instead of really advan- cing in natural enquiries , we were brought back again by this ingenious expedient to ...
Page 221
... thought guilty of too courtly a ftyle ; his language is perfectly pure , and he often for- gets he is among peasants ... thoughts of the ancients well enough ( if we confider he had not the happiness of an Univerfity education ) but he ...
... thought guilty of too courtly a ftyle ; his language is perfectly pure , and he often for- gets he is among peasants ... thoughts of the ancients well enough ( if we confider he had not the happiness of an Univerfity education ) but he ...
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