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... writings , instead of sound fancy and style , Look more like the morbid abstractions of bile ? There is one of you here - ' twas of him that I spoke- Who , instead of becoming a byword and joke , Should have brought back our fine old ...
... writings , instead of sound fancy and style , Look more like the morbid abstractions of bile ? There is one of you here - ' twas of him that I spoke- Who , instead of becoming a byword and joke , Should have brought back our fine old ...
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... Writings . The Doctor seems to have had the same notions of poetic harmo- ny as his brother Thomas , who thought that Milton , " notwith- standing his singular skill in music , " had " a very bad ear , " and of whose beau ideal in ...
... Writings . The Doctor seems to have had the same notions of poetic harmo- ny as his brother Thomas , who thought that Milton , " notwith- standing his singular skill in music , " had " a very bad ear , " and of whose beau ideal in ...
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... writings of the last hundred years , we meet with nothing but the music and harmony of Pope ; in versifiers , in critics , in philosophers , in historians , in small men and great , in the Mallets , the Hayleys , the Ma- sons , the ...
... writings of the last hundred years , we meet with nothing but the music and harmony of Pope ; in versifiers , in critics , in philosophers , in historians , in small men and great , in the Mallets , the Hayleys , the Ma- sons , the ...
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... writings , there is so much talking by rote , so many gratuitous metaphors , so many epithets to fill up and rhymes ... writing , has always the ill fortune , to say the least of it , of being suspected as to sincerity . His best part ...
... writings , there is so much talking by rote , so many gratuitous metaphors , so many epithets to fill up and rhymes ... writing , has always the ill fortune , to say the least of it , of being suspected as to sincerity . His best part ...
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... writings . ( 10 ) For his host was a God - what a very great thing ! And what was still greater in his eyes — a king ! Αναξ Απολλων - King Apollo - a common title with the old Grecian poets . See the following note . ( 11 ) Be original ...
... writings . ( 10 ) For his host was a God - what a very great thing ! And what was still greater in his eyes — a king ! Αναξ Απολλων - King Apollo - a common title with the old Grecian poets . See the following note . ( 11 ) Be original ...
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