The Works of the English Poets, Volume 20J. Nichols, 1779 - 432 pages |
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... fome furious ' critics , who , I am fure , would have been better pleased if they had met with more faults . Their grand objection is , that the Fury Disease is an improper machine to recite characters , and recommend the example of ...
... fome furious ' critics , who , I am fure , would have been better pleased if they had met with more faults . Their grand objection is , that the Fury Disease is an improper machine to recite characters , and recommend the example of ...
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... fome advances in . Nor is the compliment lefs to any great genius men- tioned there ; fince a very fiend , who naturally repines at any excellency , is forced to confefs how happily they have all fucceeded , Their next objection is ...
... fome advances in . Nor is the compliment lefs to any great genius men- tioned there ; fince a very fiend , who naturally repines at any excellency , is forced to confefs how happily they have all fucceeded , Their next objection is ...
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... fome of them would not comply with , though none of them had refused the ceremony of the cuftomary oath ; like fome that will trust their wives with any body , but their money with none . I was forry to find there could be any ...
... fome of them would not comply with , though none of them had refused the ceremony of the cuftomary oath ; like fome that will trust their wives with any body , but their money with none . I was forry to find there could be any ...
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... fome worthy gentlemen , as remarkable for their humanity as their extraordinary parts , have taken care to make him amends for it , by prefixing fomething of their own . I confefs , thofe ingenious gentlemen have done me a great honour ...
... fome worthy gentlemen , as remarkable for their humanity as their extraordinary parts , have taken care to make him amends for it , by prefixing fomething of their own . I confefs , thofe ingenious gentlemen have done me a great honour ...
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... fome genius , whofe poetic vein ; Like Montague's could a juft piece fuftain , Would fearch the Grecian and the Latin store , And thence present thee with the purest ore : In lafting numbers praife thy whole design , And manly beauty of ...
... fome genius , whofe poetic vein ; Like Montague's could a juft piece fuftain , Would fearch the Grecian and the Latin store , And thence present thee with the purest ore : In lafting numbers praife thy whole design , And manly beauty of ...
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