The Quintessence of English Poetry, Or, a Collection of All the Beautiful Passages in Our Poems and Plays, from the Celebrated Spencer to 1688 ...Olive Payne, 1740 |
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... himself , who fupplies his reader with the fruits of a long appli- cation , at the expence of little time and pains ; especially when thofe immortal fruits carry with them the neceffity of charming , infpiring , forming all hearts , and ...
... himself , who fupplies his reader with the fruits of a long appli- cation , at the expence of little time and pains ; especially when thofe immortal fruits carry with them the neceffity of charming , infpiring , forming all hearts , and ...
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... himself by the Laconick fingula- rity of his performance . Hence , we fup- pofe it was , that he made it his inviolable rule to admit no quotation of more than one line , or a couplet of ten syllables . This * Webbe's Difcourfe of ...
... himself by the Laconick fingula- rity of his performance . Hence , we fup- pofe it was , that he made it his inviolable rule to admit no quotation of more than one line , or a couplet of ten syllables . This * Webbe's Difcourfe of ...
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... himself R. A. but in one or two I have met with , there is R , Allot , of which name I find a bookfeller at that time , but know not whether he was the collector . He has , indeed , been more liberal in his en- tertainment , for the ...
... himself R. A. but in one or two I have met with , there is R , Allot , of which name I find a bookfeller at that time , but know not whether he was the collector . He has , indeed , been more liberal in his en- tertainment , for the ...
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... himself too little room for the number of plays he under- takes to extract ; in confequence of which , he has not only given us a very fuperficial taste of them , but has omitted many bet- ter thoughts than he has ufed . He feems ...
... himself too little room for the number of plays he under- takes to extract ; in confequence of which , he has not only given us a very fuperficial taste of them , but has omitted many bet- ter thoughts than he has ufed . He feems ...
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William Oldys. duced him to content himself with a first copy . So that his method of transplant- ing , instead of preferving , has abridged his flowers of their native beauty and fra- grance , which , like thofe in the Garden of the ...
William Oldys. duced him to content himself with a first copy . So that his method of transplant- ing , instead of preferving , has abridged his flowers of their native beauty and fra- grance , which , like thofe in the Garden of the ...
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