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... wisely preferr'd leading one ape on earth To perhaps a whole dozen in hell . 1796 . ON AN AMOROUS DOCTOR . FROM Rufa's eye sly Cupid POEMS . 45 Count Rumford's Essays Epigrams On a late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître.
... wisely preferr'd leading one ape on earth To perhaps a whole dozen in hell . 1796 . ON AN AMOROUS DOCTOR . FROM Rufa's eye sly Cupid POEMS . 45 Count Rumford's Essays Epigrams On a late Marriage between an Old Maid and French Petit Maître.
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... perhaps may be induced to admit a force and propriety in it . A heavier objection may be adduced against the author , that in these times of fear and expectation , when novelties explode around us in all directions , he should presume ...
... perhaps may be induced to admit a force and propriety in it . A heavier objection may be adduced against the author , that in these times of fear and expectation , when novelties explode around us in all directions , he should presume ...
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... of original genius . Of Dante , I am to speak elsewhere . Of Boccaccio , who has little inte- rest as a metrical poet in any respect , and none VOL . I. G for my present purpose , except , perhaps , as LECTURE III . 81.
... of original genius . Of Dante , I am to speak elsewhere . Of Boccaccio , who has little inte- rest as a metrical poet in any respect , and none VOL . I. G for my present purpose , except , perhaps , as LECTURE III . 81.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge. for my present purpose , except , perhaps , as the reputed inventor or introducer of the octave stanza in his Teseide , it will be sufficient to say , that we owe to him the subjects of ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge. for my present purpose , except , perhaps , as the reputed inventor or introducer of the octave stanza in his Teseide , it will be sufficient to say , that we owe to him the subjects of ...
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... perhaps , Pulci had the Teseide before him . The story is taken from the fabulous history of Turpin ; and if the author had any distinct object , it seems to have been that of making himself merry with the absurdities of the old ...
... perhaps , Pulci had the Teseide before him . The story is taken from the fabulous history of Turpin ; and if the author had any distinct object , it seems to have been that of making himself merry with the absurdities of the old ...
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