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Pàgina xv
... nature , nor manners , " 301 - Dies June 7 , 1742 , at Stowe , 301 . WILLIAM SOMERVILE , 1692-1742 380 . p . 301 Born at Edston in in Warwickshire , 301 - Educated at Winchester and New College , 301- " Writes very well for a Gentleman ...
... nature , nor manners , " 301 - Dies June 7 , 1742 , at Stowe , 301 . WILLIAM SOMERVILE , 1692-1742 380 . p . 301 Born at Edston in in Warwickshire , 301 - Educated at Winchester and New College , 301- " Writes very well for a Gentleman ...
Pàgina xvi
... Nature and on Life with the Eye which Nature bestows only on a Poet , " 448 . ISAAC WATTS , 1674-1748 448 Born at Southampton , 448 avi CONTENTS .
... Nature and on Life with the Eye which Nature bestows only on a Poet , " 448 . ISAAC WATTS , 1674-1748 448 Born at Southampton , 448 avi CONTENTS .
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... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious ... nature for literary politeness . But. ABRAHAM COWLEY, 1618-1667.
... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious ... nature for literary politeness . But. ABRAHAM COWLEY, 1618-1667.
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... natural sources in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has ...
... natural sources in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has ...
Pàgina 9
... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
... nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter , nor represented the operations of intellect . Those , however , who deny them to be poets , allow them to be wits . Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries , that they ...
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