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... quotes many examples of his poetry to show that the characteristics of his school were " enormous and disgusting hyperboles , " " unexpected and unnatural thoughts , " " violent and unnatural fictions , " " slight and trifling ...
... quotes many examples of his poetry to show that the characteristics of his school were " enormous and disgusting hyperboles , " " unexpected and unnatural thoughts , " " violent and unnatural fictions , " " slight and trifling ...
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... quote one or two of these passages , which may also serve to illustrate the form of the stanza : " Her mind ( scarce to her feeble sex akin ) Did as her birth , her right to empire show ; Seem'd careless outward when employ'd within ...
... quote one or two of these passages , which may also serve to illustrate the form of the stanza : " Her mind ( scarce to her feeble sex akin ) Did as her birth , her right to empire show ; Seem'd careless outward when employ'd within ...
Page 44
... by the way , from which it may allowable to quote a few lines ( p . 78 ) : be * Dryden received 500 guineas for his elegy , " Eleonora , " on the Countess of Abingdon . " Now these be past , ( my priests ) 44 English Literature .
... by the way , from which it may allowable to quote a few lines ( p . 78 ) : be * Dryden received 500 guineas for his elegy , " Eleonora , " on the Countess of Abingdon . " Now these be past , ( my priests ) 44 English Literature .
Page 72
... quote lavishly , and pass over to the end of the preface , " Milton's Paradise Lost ' is admira- where Dryden says : ble ; but am I , therefore , bound to maintain , that there are no flats amongst his elevations , when ' tis evident he ...
... quote lavishly , and pass over to the end of the preface , " Milton's Paradise Lost ' is admira- where Dryden says : ble ; but am I , therefore , bound to maintain , that there are no flats amongst his elevations , when ' tis evident he ...
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... quote at second - hand , that it contains , according to one estimate , one hundred thousand references ; * I have not counted them . It is also said that four thousand texts are quoted against the stage . That it was perilous is shown ...
... quote at second - hand , that it contains , according to one estimate , one hundred thousand references ; * I have not counted them . It is also said that four thousand texts are quoted against the stage . That it was perilous is shown ...
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