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... but with even those of the Augustan era : and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic to see and assert the superiority of the former , in the truth and nativeness , both of their thoughts and diction .
... but with even those of the Augustan era : and on grounds of plain sense and universal logic to see and assert the superiority of the former , in the truth and nativeness , both of their thoughts and diction .
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But as it was my constant reply to authorities brought against me from later poets of great name , that no authority could avail in opposition to TRUTH , NATURE , Logic , and the Laws of UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR ; actuated too by my former ...
But as it was my constant reply to authorities brought against me from later poets of great name , that no authority could avail in opposition to TRUTH , NATURE , Logic , and the Laws of UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR ; actuated too by my former ...
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In the former , from Donne to COWLEY , we find the most fantastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother English ; in the ...
In the former , from Donne to COWLEY , we find the most fantastic out - of - the - way thoughts , but in the most pure and genuine mother English ; in the ...
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Their faults were at least a remnant of the former leaven , and. * Cowper's task was published some time before the sonnets of Mr. Bowles ; but I was not familiar with it till many years afterwards . The vein of Satire which runs ...
Their faults were at least a remnant of the former leaven , and. * Cowper's task was published some time before the sonnets of Mr. Bowles ; but I was not familiar with it till many years afterwards . The vein of Satire which runs ...
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at least a remnant of the former leaven , and among the many who have done me the honor of putting my poems in the same class with those of my betters , the one or two , who have pretended to bring examples of affected simplicity from ...
at least a remnant of the former leaven , and among the many who have done me the honor of putting my poems in the same class with those of my betters , the one or two , who have pretended to bring examples of affected simplicity from ...
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