Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets |
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... most concise and most just ever given : True wit is nature to advantage dreft , What oft was thought , but ne'er fo well expreft . Denham , and his cotemporaries , on the contrary , seem to have imagined all merit to confist in thinking ...
... most concise and most just ever given : True wit is nature to advantage dreft , What oft was thought , but ne'er fo well expreft . Denham , and his cotemporaries , on the contrary , seem to have imagined all merit to confist in thinking ...
Page 135
... the happiest of his efforts . His tranfition from Rome to Britain is not the most easy , and his introduction of Cecil , Raleigh , Walfing- I 4 ham , ham , and Drake , as patriotic examples to their CRITICAL ESSAYS . 135.
... the happiest of his efforts . His tranfition from Rome to Britain is not the most easy , and his introduction of Cecil , Raleigh , Walfing- I 4 ham , ham , and Drake , as patriotic examples to their CRITICAL ESSAYS . 135.
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... most diftinguished fuperiorities must all terminate in the grave . He then proceeds to intimate , that it was not from any natural inequality of abilities , but from want of acquired advantages , as riches , knowledge , & c . that the ...
... most diftinguished fuperiorities must all terminate in the grave . He then proceeds to intimate , that it was not from any natural inequality of abilities , but from want of acquired advantages , as riches , knowledge , & c . that the ...
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