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... original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is ...
... original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and poetry . But the basis of all excellence is ...
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... original import means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped ...
... original import means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped ...
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... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
... original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy unsuitable to the original , as , The table , free for ev'ry guest , No doubt will thee admit , And ...
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... original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled the Muse , who goes to take the air in an ...
... original than the secondary sense , more upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied . Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled the Muse , who goes to take the air in an ...
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... original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them.ibm 10 Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what ...
... original trade : the rights of nations , and of kings , sink into questions of grammar , if grammarians discuss them.ibm 10 Milton , when he undertook this answer , was weak of body and dim of sight ; but his will was forward , and what ...
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