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Page 83
... writers who have had less important or complicated subjects to take off their care from the cadence of their lines . The great peculiarity of Milton's versification , compared with that of later poets , is the elision of one vowel ...
... writers who have had less important or complicated subjects to take off their care from the cadence of their lines . The great peculiarity of Milton's versification , compared with that of later poets , is the elision of one vowel ...
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... Writers possessed with this opinion are continually enforcing civility and decency , recom- mending to critics the proper diffidence of them- selves , and inculcating the veneration due to cele- brated names . I am not of opinion that ...
... Writers possessed with this opinion are continually enforcing civility and decency , recom- mending to critics the proper diffidence of them- selves , and inculcating the veneration due to cele- brated names . I am not of opinion that ...
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... writers whose characters have survived their works ; but perhaps , if we could now retrieve them , we should find them only the Granvilles , Montagues , Stepneys , and Sheffields of their time , and wonder by what infatuation or ca ...
... writers whose characters have survived their works ; but perhaps , if we could now retrieve them , we should find them only the Granvilles , Montagues , Stepneys , and Sheffields of their time , and wonder by what infatuation or ca ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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