Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... whole not above the appreciation of the unpoetical age he lived in : " Dryden once took occasion to ask him how much he got by one of his plays ; to which he answered that he was really ashamed to inform him . But , Mr. Dryden being a ...
... whole not above the appreciation of the unpoetical age he lived in : " Dryden once took occasion to ask him how much he got by one of his plays ; to which he answered that he was really ashamed to inform him . But , Mr. Dryden being a ...
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... whole course of nature , or of human affairs , so great and so extraordinary as the two last scenes of them , The Coming of our Saviour , and the Burning of the World . If we could draw in our minds the pictures of these in true and ...
... whole course of nature , or of human affairs , so great and so extraordinary as the two last scenes of them , The Coming of our Saviour , and the Burning of the World . If we could draw in our minds the pictures of these in true and ...
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... whole frame of the heavens was out of order , and all the laws of nature were broken or expired . When all things are in this languishing or dying posture , and the inhabitants of the earth under the fears of their last end , the ...
... whole frame of the heavens was out of order , and all the laws of nature were broken or expired . When all things are in this languishing or dying posture , and the inhabitants of the earth under the fears of their last end , the ...
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... whole history of this world , that can be a just representation of the least part of it . No armies so numerous as the host of Heaven ; and , instead of the wild noises of the rabble , which makes a great part of our worldly state ...
... whole history of this world , that can be a just representation of the least part of it . No armies so numerous as the host of Heaven ; and , instead of the wild noises of the rabble , which makes a great part of our worldly state ...
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... whole habitable world running into con- fusion . A world is sooner destroyed than made ; and nature relapses hastily into that chaos state out of which she came by slow and leisurely motions : as an army advances into the field by just ...
... whole habitable world running into con- fusion . A world is sooner destroyed than made ; and nature relapses hastily into that chaos state out of which she came by slow and leisurely motions : as an army advances into the field by just ...
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