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Page 10
... shew my zeal for removing the dissatisfaction of the fair - sex , and restoring you to their favour . ' SIR , I WAS some time since in company with a young officer , who entertained us with the conquest he had made over a female ...
... shew my zeal for removing the dissatisfaction of the fair - sex , and restoring you to their favour . ' SIR , I WAS some time since in company with a young officer , who entertained us with the conquest he had made over a female ...
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... shew , that this kind of implex fable , wherein the event is unhappy , is more apt to affect an audience than that of the first kind ; notwithstanding many excellent pieces among the ancients , as well as most of those which have been ...
... shew , that this kind of implex fable , wherein the event is unhappy , is more apt to affect an audience than that of the first kind ; notwithstanding many excellent pieces among the ancients , as well as most of those which have been ...
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... shew there is in the Paradise Lost all the greatness of plan , regularity of design , and masterly beauties which we discover in HOMER and VIRGIL . I must in the next place observe , that MILTON has interwoven in the texture of his ...
... shew there is in the Paradise Lost all the greatness of plan , regularity of design , and masterly beauties which we discover in HOMER and VIRGIL . I must in the next place observe , that MILTON has interwoven in the texture of his ...
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... shews how much happier it would be for man , if he did not feel his evil fortune before it comes to pass ; and suffer not only by its real weight , but by the apprehension of it . MILTON'S complaint ' ' s degressio Check No. 297 . THE ...
... shews how much happier it would be for man , if he did not feel his evil fortune before it comes to pass ; and suffer not only by its real weight , but by the apprehension of it . MILTON'S complaint ' ' s degressio Check No. 297 . THE ...
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... shews itself in their works after an indirect and concealed manner . MILTON Seems ambitious of letting us know , by his excursions on free - will and predestination , and his many glances upon history , astronomy , geography , V. B ...
... shews itself in their works after an indirect and concealed manner . MILTON Seems ambitious of letting us know , by his excursions on free - will and predestination , and his many glances upon history , astronomy , geography , V. B ...
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