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... knowledge may be sometimes found , buried perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
... knowledge may be sometimes found , buried perhaps in grossness of expression , but useful to those who know their value ; and such as , when they are expanded to perspicuity , and polished to elegance , may give lustre to works which ...
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... knowledge in some encomiastick verses . In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you ; But you , of learning and ...
... knowledge in some encomiastick verses . In every thing there naturally grows A Balsamum to keep it fresh and new , If ' twere not injur'd by extrinsique blows ; Your youth and beauty are this balm in you ; But you , of learning and ...
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... knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily con- cluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and happily ex- pressed ...
... knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily con- cluded , contain some hints of criticism very justly conceived and happily ex- pressed ...
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... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , con- sidered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much com- mend them . They are neither courtly nor ...
... knowledge flows in upon his page , so that the reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , con- sidered as the verses of a lover , no man that has ever loved will much com- mend them . They are neither courtly nor ...
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... knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of language gives the noblest conceptions the ...
... knowledge , and great fertility of fancy . The thoughts are often new , and often striking ; but the greatness of one part is disgraced by the littleness of another ; and total negligence of language gives the noblest conceptions the ...
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