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... Nature round him break In ruin and confufion hurl'd , She unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack , And ftand fecure amid a falling world . " On which lines ke obferves , in the Bathos , Sometimes a fingle word ( as crack ) will ...
... Nature round him break In ruin and confufion hurl'd , She unconcern'd would hear the mighty crack , And ftand fecure amid a falling world . " On which lines ke obferves , in the Bathos , Sometimes a fingle word ( as crack ) will ...
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... nature of the two infects in queftion . It is not purfued too far , nor jaded out , fo as to become quaint and affe & ted , as in the cafe of many in Congreve's too witty comedies , particularly in the Way of the World , and in Young's ...
... nature of the two infects in queftion . It is not purfued too far , nor jaded out , fo as to become quaint and affe & ted , as in the cafe of many in Congreve's too witty comedies , particularly in the Way of the World , and in Young's ...
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... nature . W. P. VER . 150. A painted meadow , or a purling fiream , ] is a verfe of Mr. Addifon . Ibid . A painted mistress , or a purling ftream . ] Meaning the Rape of the Lock , and Windfor - Foreft . W. VER . 151. · Yet then did ...
... nature . W. P. VER . 150. A painted meadow , or a purling fiream , ] is a verfe of Mr. Addifon . Ibid . A painted mistress , or a purling ftream . ] Meaning the Rape of the Lock , and Windfor - Foreft . W. VER . 151. · Yet then did ...
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... nature and art , as might have raised modern learning to a rivalship with the ancient . Yet how did they and their adversaries tear and worry one another ? The choiceft of Joseph's flowers of speech were Stercus Diaboli , and Lutum ...
... nature and art , as might have raised modern learning to a rivalship with the ancient . Yet how did they and their adversaries tear and worry one another ? The choiceft of Joseph's flowers of speech were Stercus Diaboli , and Lutum ...
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... natural , I may fay , even neceffary , and brings no harm . Bitterness , for that reason , is neither necessary nor natural , and what I hope neither you nor I are fufceptible of , neither with refpe & to friends nor ftrangers . " When ...
... natural , I may fay , even neceffary , and brings no harm . Bitterness , for that reason , is neither necessary nor natural , and what I hope neither you nor I are fufceptible of , neither with refpe & to friends nor ftrangers . " When ...
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