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... use without felf - deteftation . It is an attempt to mingle earth and heaven , by praising human excellence in the language of religion . The preface contains an apology for he- roick verfe and poetick licence ; by which is meant not ...
... use without felf - deteftation . It is an attempt to mingle earth and heaven , by praising human excellence in the language of religion . The preface contains an apology for he- roick verfe and poetick licence ; by which is meant not ...
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... use of his name was a pious fraud , which however seems not to have had much effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ...
... use of his name was a pious fraud , which however seems not to have had much effect ; for neither of the books , I believe , was ever popular . The verfion of Xavier's Life is commended by Brown , in a pamphlet not written to flatter ...
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... use difpos'd , His to enclose , and yours to be enclos'd . Nor could another in your room have been , Except an emptinefs had come between . The comparison of the Chancellor to the Indies leaves all resemblance too far behind it : And ...
... use difpos'd , His to enclose , and yours to be enclos'd . Nor could another in your room have been , Except an emptinefs had come between . The comparison of the Chancellor to the Indies leaves all resemblance too far behind it : And ...
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... use thyself betimes to hear our prayers . " Which is fuch a wretched perversion of " Virgil's noble thought as Vicars would have " blush'd at ; but Mr. Ogylby makes us some " amends , by his better lines : " O wherefoe'er thou art ...
... use thyself betimes to hear our prayers . " Which is fuch a wretched perversion of " Virgil's noble thought as Vicars would have " blush'd at ; but Mr. Ogylby makes us some " amends , by his better lines : " O wherefoe'er thou art ...
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... use . The rhymes of Dryden are commonly just , and he valued himself for his readiness in finding them ; but he is fometimes open to objection . It is the common practice of our poets to end the fecond line with a weak or grave fyllable ...
... use . The rhymes of Dryden are commonly just , and he valued himself for his readiness in finding them ; but he is fometimes open to objection . It is the common practice of our poets to end the fecond line with a weak or grave fyllable ...
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