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... muft ever have regretted , as they would in this cafe have been deprived of one of the greatest ornaments that ever adorned the profeffion . The year before he left the University he wrote a Volume I. * Athen . Oxon . A poem on the ...
... muft ever have regretted , as they would in this cafe have been deprived of one of the greatest ornaments that ever adorned the profeffion . The year before he left the University he wrote a Volume I. * Athen . Oxon . A poem on the ...
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... muft be understood of his performances for the ftage ; for " as to his perfonal character , there was nothing remarkably " viclous in it : but his plays are , fome of them , the fullest of obscenity of any now extant . " " municative of ...
... muft be understood of his performances for the ftage ; for " as to his perfonal character , there was nothing remarkably " viclous in it : but his plays are , fome of them , the fullest of obscenity of any now extant . " " municative of ...
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... compofe in peace , As Nature bred , and Int'reft did increase . We figh'd to hear the fair Iberian bride Muft grow a lily to the lily's fide , 6 ΤΟ 15 25 While our crofs stars deny'd us Charles ' bed Dij ASTREA REDUX. ...
... compofe in peace , As Nature bred , and Int'reft did increase . We figh'd to hear the fair Iberian bride Muft grow a lily to the lily's fide , 6 ΤΟ 15 25 While our crofs stars deny'd us Charles ' bed Dij ASTREA REDUX. ...
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... muft needs acknowledge , that the last line of the ftanza is to be confidered in the compofition of the first . Neither can we give ourselves the liberty of making any part of a verse for the fake of rhyme , or concluding with a word ...
... muft needs acknowledge , that the last line of the ftanza is to be confidered in the compofition of the first . Neither can we give ourselves the liberty of making any part of a verse for the fake of rhyme , or concluding with a word ...
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... muft crave leave to tell you , that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts , fo much more to exprefs thofe thoughts with elocu- tion . The compofition of all poems is , or ought to be , of wit ; and wit in the poet , or ...
... muft crave leave to tell you , that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts , fo much more to exprefs thofe thoughts with elocu- tion . The compofition of all poems is , or ought to be , of wit ; and wit in the poet , or ...
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