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... number of his of hard study and spare diet ; only now and then , pupils . But before his father or his new pupils once in three weeks or a month , he made a gaudy were come , he took a journey in the Whitsuntide day with some young ...
... number of his of hard study and spare diet ; only now and then , pupils . But before his father or his new pupils once in three weeks or a month , he made a gaudy were come , he took a journey in the Whitsuntide day with some young ...
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... number times was not to his satisfaction , though he court- was not to exceed fifteen hundred . And what a ed his fancy never so much . Mr. Toland ima- poor compensation was this for such an inestimable gines that Philips might be ...
... number times was not to his satisfaction , though he court- was not to exceed fifteen hundred . And what a ed his fancy never so much . Mr. Toland ima- poor compensation was this for such an inestimable gines that Philips might be ...
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... number every year ; as the the noblest poem that ever was written in any bookseller , who should best know , has informed language or in any age . However it is certain us in his dedication of the smaller editions to Lord that the book ...
... number every year ; as the the noblest poem that ever was written in any bookseller , who should best know , has informed language or in any age . However it is certain us in his dedication of the smaller editions to Lord that the book ...
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... number of verses from down sometimes twenty or thirty verses ; and be the beginning of both those poets , as Mr. Ward , ing asked whether he did not often read Homer Professor of Rhetoric in Gresham College , relates and Virgil , she ...
... number of verses from down sometimes twenty or thirty verses ; and be the beginning of both those poets , as Mr. Ward , ing asked whether he did not often read Homer Professor of Rhetoric in Gresham College , relates and Virgil , she ...
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Thy verse created , like thy theme , sublime , In number , weight , and measure , needs not rhyme . EPIGRAM ON MILTON ... numbers , walks : No vulgar hero can his Muse engage , Nor earth's wide scene confine his hallow'd rage . See ! see ...
Thy verse created , like thy theme , sublime , In number , weight , and measure , needs not rhyme . EPIGRAM ON MILTON ... numbers , walks : No vulgar hero can his Muse engage , Nor earth's wide scene confine his hallow'd rage . See ! see ...
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Page 10 - Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! — So both ascend In the visions of God — B.