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... never been re- fused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation ; yet who has ...
... never been re- fused the right of afcribing effects or agency to them as to pofitive powers . No man fcruples to fay that darkness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has killed the plants . Death is alfo privation ; yet who has ...
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... never seen a man , is in this brought acquainted with a man that had never feen a woman . About this time , in 1673 , Dryden feems to have had his quiet much disturbed by the fuccefs of the Empress of Morocco , a tragedy written in ...
... never seen a man , is in this brought acquainted with a man that had never feen a woman . About this time , in 1673 , Dryden feems to have had his quiet much disturbed by the fuccefs of the Empress of Morocco , a tragedy written in ...
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... never " fashion into wit or English . His ftyle is " boisterous and rough - hewn , his rhyme incorrigibly lewd , and his numbers perpe- " tually harsh and ill - founding . The little " talent which he has , is fancy . He fome- " times ...
... never " fashion into wit or English . His ftyle is " boisterous and rough - hewn , his rhyme incorrigibly lewd , and his numbers perpe- " tually harsh and ill - founding . The little " talent which he has , is fancy . He fome- " times ...
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... lump of clotted " nonsense at once . " Here is perhaps a fufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of republication , VOL . II . C and and is not easily to be found , it may DRY D E N. 19.
... lump of clotted " nonsense at once . " Here is perhaps a fufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of republication , VOL . II . C and and is not easily to be found , it may DRY D E N. 19.
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... never ' scape " him ; and here he brings in a breath that " must be infectious with pronouncing a fen- " tence ; and this fentence is not to be 66 pronounced till the condemned party " bleeds ; that is , fhe must be executed first ...
... never ' scape " him ; and here he brings in a breath that " must be infectious with pronouncing a fen- " tence ; and this fentence is not to be 66 pronounced till the condemned party " bleeds ; that is , fhe must be executed first ...
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