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... turn to an admired writer , poste- rior to Milton , and see how cold , how insipid , * Since the above was written , I have found Milton praised and sir William Temple censured , on the same foundations , in a poem called The rise and ...
... turn to an admired writer , poste- rior to Milton , and see how cold , how insipid , * Since the above was written , I have found Milton praised and sir William Temple censured , on the same foundations , in a poem called The rise and ...
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... turn in vogue ; and though the French treat the virtues like every thing else , but as an object of mode , it is to be hoped that they too will , every now and then , come into fashion again . The author I have been men- tioning reminds ...
... turn in vogue ; and though the French treat the virtues like every thing else , but as an object of mode , it is to be hoped that they too will , every now and then , come into fashion again . The author I have been men- tioning reminds ...
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... turn was to be set free from its prim regularity , that it might assort with the wilder country without . The sunk fence ascertained the specific garden ; but that it might not draw too obvious a line of distinction between the neat and ...
... turn was to be set free from its prim regularity , that it might assort with the wilder country without . The sunk fence ascertained the specific garden ; but that it might not draw too obvious a line of distinction between the neat and ...
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