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... easily believe to be undiffem- bled ; a man harraffed in one kingdom , and perfecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights in cyphering and decyphering , " comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undiffem- bled ; a man harraffed in one kingdom , and perfecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights in cyphering and decyphering , " comes to his own country ...
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... easily find his way back , when folitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but flenderly accommodated ; yet he foon ob- tained , by the intereft of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when folitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but flenderly accommodated ; yet he foon ob- tained , by the intereft of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
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... easily understood , they may be read again : On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Afia , And quickly make that , which was nothing , all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A ...
... easily understood , they may be read again : On a round ball A workman , that hath copies by , can lay An Europe , Afric , and an Afia , And quickly make that , which was nothing , all . So doth each tear , Which thee doth wear , A ...
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... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit ; Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That fhews more coft than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of Wit ; Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That fhews more coft than art . Jewels at nofe and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
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... furely by fome fascination not easily furmounted , that a writer , profeffing to re- vive the noblest and highest writing in verfe , makes this address to the new year ; Nay , Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , COWL E Y. 73 .
... furely by fome fascination not easily furmounted , that a writer , profeffing to re- vive the noblest and highest writing in verfe , makes this address to the new year ; Nay , Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , COWL E Y. 73 .
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work Samuel Johnson Visualização completa - 1795 |
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