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... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . - COWLEY . for nous 10 A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our ...
... equal art Made up the whole again of every part . - COWLEY . for nous 10 A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our ...
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... equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion by which the estab- lished order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words , or new meanings of words , are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood ...
... equal pleasure . The artifices of inversion by which the estab- lished order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words , or new meanings of words , are introduced , is practised , not by those who talk to be understood ...
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... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soc'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find ...
... equal measure dance ; While the dance lasts , how long soc'er it be , My music's voice shall bear it company ; Till all gentle notes be drown'd In the last trumpet's dreadful sound . After such enthusiasm , who will not lament to find ...
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... which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : - His spear , to equal 28 COWLEY .
... which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah , His spear , the trunk was of a lofty tree , Which Nature meant some tall ship's mast should be . Milton of Satan : - His spear , to equal 28 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. Milton of Satan : - His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great ammiral , were but a wand , He walketh with . His diction was in his own time censured as negligent ...
Samuel Johnson. Milton of Satan : - His spear , to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills , to be the mast Of some great ammiral , were but a wand , He walketh with . His diction was in his own time censured as negligent ...
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