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... verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation ; yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told ...
... verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation ; yet even in this not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told ...
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Samuel Johnson. Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such ...
Samuel Johnson. Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narrative seems to imply something encomiastic , there has been no appearance . There is a discourse concerning his government , indeed , with verses intermixed , but such ...
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... verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him which he expected ...
... verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful Melancholy . His vehement desire of retirement now came again upon him . " Not finding , " says the morose Wood , " that preferment conferred upon him which he expected ...
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... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism had ...
... verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism had ...
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... verses we have an allusion to a rabbinical opinion con- Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in ...
... verses we have an allusion to a rabbinical opinion con- Variety I ask not : give me one To live perpetually upon . The person Love does to us fit , Like manna , has the taste of all in it . Thus Donne shows his medicinal knowledge in ...
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