A Compendium of English Literature, chronologically arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ... Stereotype editionE. C. & J. Biddle, 1850 - 776 pages |
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... nature , and the elegant courtier whose opulent tastes are often discovered in the graceful pomp of his descriptions . The vigorous yet finished paintings , with which his works abound , are still , notwithstanding the roughness of ...
... nature , and the elegant courtier whose opulent tastes are often discovered in the graceful pomp of his descriptions . The vigorous yet finished paintings , with which his works abound , are still , notwithstanding the roughness of ...
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... natural philosophy , and in sketches of human nature of no com mon beauty . The poet , in a vision , sees a temple of glass , on the walls of which are displayed in portraitures the history of Æneas , abridged from Virgil . After ...
... natural philosophy , and in sketches of human nature of no com mon beauty . The poet , in a vision , sees a temple of glass , on the walls of which are displayed in portraitures the history of Æneas , abridged from Virgil . After ...
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... nature ? " Or are ye god Cupidis own princess , And comen are to loose me out of band ? Or are ye very Nature the goddess , That have depainted with your heavenly hand This garden full of flouris as they stand ? What shall I think ...
... nature ? " Or are ye god Cupidis own princess , And comen are to loose me out of band ? Or are ye very Nature the goddess , That have depainted with your heavenly hand This garden full of flouris as they stand ? What shall I think ...
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... nature . In their love of virtue , and their instinctive hatred and contempt of vice ; in their freedom from personal jealousy ; in their thirst after knowledge and intellectual improvement ; in nice obser- vation of nature ...
... nature . In their love of virtue , and their instinctive hatred and contempt of vice ; in their freedom from personal jealousy ; in their thirst after knowledge and intellectual improvement ; in nice obser- vation of nature ...
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... Nature's plaint , When she had lost the perfit mould , The like to whom she could not paint : 7 With wringing hands , how she did cry , And what she said , I know it , I. I know she swore with raging mind , Her kingdom only set apart ...
... Nature's plaint , When she had lost the perfit mould , The like to whom she could not paint : 7 With wringing hands , how she did cry , And what she said , I know it , I. I know she swore with raging mind , Her kingdom only set apart ...
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