Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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Page 129
... sometimes plenty ; sometimes copi- ousnesse , or variety : but ever so , that the word which comes in lieu , have not such difference of meaning , as that it may put the sense of the first in hazard to be mistaken . You are not to cast ...
... sometimes plenty ; sometimes copi- ousnesse , or variety : but ever so , that the word which comes in lieu , have not such difference of meaning , as that it may put the sense of the first in hazard to be mistaken . You are not to cast ...
Page 333
... sometimes : He is not equally awake in every Line : But he leaves it also as a standing Measure for our judgments , Non , Ubi plura nitent in Carmine , paucis Offendi maculis , quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parùm cavit Natura.3 And ...
... sometimes : He is not equally awake in every Line : But he leaves it also as a standing Measure for our judgments , Non , Ubi plura nitent in Carmine , paucis Offendi maculis , quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parùm cavit Natura.3 And ...
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... sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far- fetched , they were often worth the carriage . To write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor ...
... sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far- fetched , they were often worth the carriage . To write on their plan , it was at least necessary to read and think . No man could be born a metaphysical poet , nor ...
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