Cowley, Denham, MiltonAlexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1810 - English poetry |
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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not retain from am- plifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory , admitting some things , and rejecting ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not retain from am- plifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory , admitting some things , and rejecting ...
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... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an ...
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an ...
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... tell you the truth , ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as mere- ly ludicrous , or at ...
... tell you the truth , ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression , from a secretary of the present time , would be considered as mere- ly ludicrous , or at ...
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... tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recommend the pe rusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender sup- plement . I Now in the possession of Mr. Clark , alderman of London . Mr. Clark ...
... tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recommend the pe rusal of his work , to which my narration can be considered only as a slender sup- plement . I Now in the possession of Mr. Clark , alderman of London . Mr. Clark ...
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... tell : Unhappy till the last , the kind releasing knell . His heroic lines are often formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole Earth his dreaded name shall sound ...
... tell : Unhappy till the last , the kind releasing knell . His heroic lines are often formed of monosyllables ; but yet they are sometimes sweet and sonorous . He says of the Messiah , Round the whole Earth his dreaded name shall sound ...
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