Hudibras: A Poem, in Three Cantos, Volume 1, Issue 1Rickaby, 1793 - 317 pages |
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... writing , to express any thing na- turally and briefly , than to enlarge and dilate : And therefore a judicious author's blots Are more ingenious than his first free thoughts . This , and many other paffages from Butler's MSS . are ...
... writing , to express any thing na- turally and briefly , than to enlarge and dilate : And therefore a judicious author's blots Are more ingenious than his first free thoughts . This , and many other paffages from Butler's MSS . are ...
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... write plays in verfe than in profe , for it is much harder to imitate nature , than any deviation from her ; and profe requires a more proper and natural fenfe and expreffion than verse , that has something in the stamp and coin to ...
... write plays in verfe than in profe , for it is much harder to imitate nature , than any deviation from her ; and profe requires a more proper and natural fenfe and expreffion than verse , that has something in the stamp and coin to ...
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... writer of the verses feems to have mistaken the character of Mr. Butler . The inscription runs thus , " This little monument was erected in the year 1786 , by " fome of the parishioners of Covent Garden , in memory of See Butler's Life ...
... writer of the verses feems to have mistaken the character of Mr. Butler . The inscription runs thus , " This little monument was erected in the year 1786 , by " fome of the parishioners of Covent Garden , in memory of See Butler's Life ...
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... writing cha- racters , cultivated when Butler was young , by men of genius , fuch as Bishop Earle and Mr. Cleveland ; the volumes , however , are very useful , as they tend to illustrate many paf- fages in Hudibras . The three small ...
... writing cha- racters , cultivated when Butler was young , by men of genius , fuch as Bishop Earle and Mr. Cleveland ; the volumes , however , are very useful , as they tend to illustrate many paf- fages in Hudibras . The three small ...
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... , Complains the thought him but an ass , Much more fhe wou'd Sir Hudibras : For that's the name our valiant knight To all his challenges did write . 25 30 35 40 But they're mistaken very much , ' Tis plain enough PART I. 5 CANTO I.
... , Complains the thought him but an ass , Much more fhe wou'd Sir Hudibras : For that's the name our valiant knight To all his challenges did write . 25 30 35 40 But they're mistaken very much , ' Tis plain enough PART I. 5 CANTO I.
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