The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of DrydenA. and C. Black, 1870 - Demonology |
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... ancient Anglo - Saxons , the merit of whose poems consisted , not in the ideas , but in the quaint arrange- ment of the words , and the regular recurrence of some favourite sound or letter . This peculiar taste for twisting and playing ...
... ancient Anglo - Saxons , the merit of whose poems consisted , not in the ideas , but in the quaint arrange- ment of the words , and the regular recurrence of some favourite sound or letter . This peculiar taste for twisting and playing ...
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... ancient statue , the beauty of which , springing from the exactness of proportion , does not always strike at first sight , but rises upon us as we bestow time in considering it ; the other is the representation of a monster , which is ...
... ancient statue , the beauty of which , springing from the exactness of proportion , does not always strike at first sight , but rises upon us as we bestow time in considering it ; the other is the representation of a monster , which is ...
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... ancient practice as to make lines which could be scanned like verse , he had done his part , and was perfectly indifferent , although they sound- ed like prose . 1 But as melody will be always acceptable to the ear , some poets chose ...
... ancient practice as to make lines which could be scanned like verse , he had done his part , and was perfectly indifferent , although they sound- ed like prose . 1 But as melody will be always acceptable to the ear , some poets chose ...
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... ancient college , where he possessed the church , and abused most part of it to profane uses : the chancel he turned to a barn ; the body of it to a corn - chamber and store - house , might reasonably hope to attain preferment . In a ...
... ancient college , where he possessed the church , and abused most part of it to profane uses : the chancel he turned to a barn ; the body of it to a corn - chamber and store - house , might reasonably hope to attain preferment . In a ...
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... ancient cavaliers , and the old courtiers of Charles I .; persons unlikely to lead the fashion in the court of a gay monarch , filled with such men as Buckingham , Rochester , Etherege , Sedley , and The Mulgrave , whose time and habits ...
... ancient cavaliers , and the old courtiers of Charles I .; persons unlikely to lead the fashion in the court of a gay monarch , filled with such men as Buckingham , Rochester , Etherege , Sedley , and The Mulgrave , whose time and habits ...
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