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Page 244
... seems to have poffeffed a more vigorous and fertile fancy than any of his countrymen ; who , whatever talents they may Jay claim to , are not eminent for imagination and creative powers . His Poem is in eighteen books , on the Recovery ...
... seems to have poffeffed a more vigorous and fertile fancy than any of his countrymen ; who , whatever talents they may Jay claim to , are not eminent for imagination and creative powers . His Poem is in eighteen books , on the Recovery ...
Page 253
... may in like manner fairly be provided for . 12. If fome of the Articles may at first view seem liable to Objections , particularly thofe that give fo > vaft a power to the Council of Six ( which Of the ART OF SINKING IN POETRY . 253.
... may in like manner fairly be provided for . 12. If fome of the Articles may at first view seem liable to Objections , particularly thofe that give fo > vaft a power to the Council of Six ( which Of the ART OF SINKING IN POETRY . 253.
Page 258
... seem to have communicated themselves only to those men , who retired from the converfe of their own . fpecies to a more uninterrupted life of contem- plation . I am much inclined to believe , that in the midst of those folitudes they ...
... seem to have communicated themselves only to those men , who retired from the converfe of their own . fpecies to a more uninterrupted life of contem- plation . I am much inclined to believe , that in the midst of those folitudes they ...
Page 311
... seems a grave and fenfible man : I fup- pose , Sir , you are his apothecary ? Gent . Sir , I am his friend . Dr. I doubt it not . What regimen have you ob- ferved , fince he has been under your care ? You re- member , I fuppofe , the ...
... seems a grave and fenfible man : I fup- pose , Sir , you are his apothecary ? Gent . Sir , I am his friend . Dr. I doubt it not . What regimen have you ob- ferved , fince he has been under your care ? You re- member , I fuppofe , the ...
Page 313
... seem to be defperate ;, for Avicen says , that if learning be mixed with a brain that is not of a contexture fit to receive it , the brain ferments , till it be totally exhaufted . We mafl eradicate thefe undi- gefled ideas out of the ...
... seem to be defperate ;, for Avicen says , that if learning be mixed with a brain that is not of a contexture fit to receive it , the brain ferments , till it be totally exhaufted . We mafl eradicate thefe undi- gefled ideas out of the ...
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