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... eye could ever leave half - read the work of Butler ; for what poet has ever brought so many remote images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some association of images that was never found ...
... eye could ever leave half - read the work of Butler ; for what poet has ever brought so many remote images so happily together ? It is scarcely possible to peruse a page without finding some association of images that was never found ...
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... eyes , and cannot but by recollection and study understand the lines in which they are satirized . Our grand- cines , the learned trifling of experimental philosophers , the knavery of fortune - tellers , and the folly of their dupes ...
... eyes , and cannot but by recollection and study understand the lines in which they are satirized . Our grand- cines , the learned trifling of experimental philosophers , the knavery of fortune - tellers , and the folly of their dupes ...
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... eye to Jaques's description of the Country Justice , in ' As you like it . ' It may be asked , Why the Poet is so particular upon the Knight's beard , and gives it the preference to all his other accoutrements ? The answer seems to be ...
... eye to Jaques's description of the Country Justice , in ' As you like it . ' It may be asked , Why the Poet is so particular upon the Knight's beard , and gives it the preference to all his other accoutrements ? The answer seems to be ...
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... eyes of wall , I would say eye , for h ' had but one , As most agree , though some say none . He was well stay'd , and in his gate Preserv'd a grave , majestic state ; At spur or switch no more he skipt Or mended pace than Spaniard ...
... eyes of wall , I would say eye , for h ' had but one , As most agree , though some say none . He was well stay'd , and in his gate Preserv'd a grave , majestic state ; At spur or switch no more he skipt Or mended pace than Spaniard ...
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... eyes , They'd make them see in darkest night , Like owls , though purblind in the light . By help of these ( as he profest ) He had First Matter seen undrest : He took her naked , all alone , 546 Alluding to the Philosophers ' stone ...
... eyes , They'd make them see in darkest night , Like owls , though purblind in the light . By help of these ( as he profest ) He had First Matter seen undrest : He took her naked , all alone , 546 Alluding to the Philosophers ' stone ...
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Page 122 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm, in erecting a grammar-school : and whereas, before, our fore-fathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 5 - He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H...
Page 11 - A sect whose chief devotion lies In odd perverse antipathies, In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick...
Page 5 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.
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Page 80 - AY me ! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron ! What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps Do dog him still with after-claps...
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