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... fancy , and distinguish beauties of a superior order mingled with defects , perhaps , of a greater magnitude . It discloses , indeed , in most of its parts the vitious taste of the age ; but even where it is most erroneous , it dis ...
... fancy , and distinguish beauties of a superior order mingled with defects , perhaps , of a greater magnitude . It discloses , indeed , in most of its parts the vitious taste of the age ; but even where it is most erroneous , it dis ...
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... fancy in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at Heaven's door Look in and see each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , & c . But whatever emanations of ...
... fancy in fit sound : Such where the deep transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles , and at Heaven's door Look in and see each blissful Deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie , & c . But whatever emanations of ...
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... pati senium , possesses the merit , in a most uncommon degree , of poetic fancy , and of poetic dic- tion . Vide Milton's letter to Alexander Gill , July 2 , 1628 . bo shire , where his father lived on a competent LIFE OF MILTON . 51.
... pati senium , possesses the merit , in a most uncommon degree , of poetic fancy , and of poetic dic- tion . Vide Milton's letter to Alexander Gill , July 2 , 1628 . bo shire , where his father lived on a competent LIFE OF MILTON . 51.
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... fancy , he enjoyed an inter- val of happiness , on which , amid the asperi- ties of his later years , he must frequently have looked back with emotions nearly simi- lar to those of the traveller , who , wandering LIFE OF MILTON . 55.
... fancy , he enjoyed an inter- val of happiness , on which , amid the asperi- ties of his later years , he must frequently have looked back with emotions nearly simi- lar to those of the traveller , who , wandering LIFE OF MILTON . 55.
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... fancy , the Comus . I am rather surprised that Mr. Warton , who , with his brother commentators , frequently detects imitation in a single , and , sometimes , a no uncommon word , should omit to notice , in the speech of the Genius , an ...
... fancy , the Comus . I am rather surprised that Mr. Warton , who , with his brother commentators , frequently detects imitation in a single , and , sometimes , a no uncommon word , should omit to notice , in the speech of the Genius , an ...
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