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... nature has conferr'd : This does but roughen and design , Leaves art to polish and refine . BUTLER : Hudibras . Their wildness lose , and , quitting nature's part , Obey the rules and discipline of art . DRYDEN . Such tools as art yet ...
... nature has conferr'd : This does but roughen and design , Leaves art to polish and refine . BUTLER : Hudibras . Their wildness lose , and , quitting nature's part , Obey the rules and discipline of art . DRYDEN . Such tools as art yet ...
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... Nature's sternest painter , yet the best . BYRON : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers . And stoic Franklin's ... nature form'd but one such man , And broke the die -- in moulding Sheridan . BYRON . And aye that volume on her lap is ...
... Nature's sternest painter , yet the best . BYRON : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers . And stoic Franklin's ... nature form'd but one such man , And broke the die -- in moulding Sheridan . BYRON . And aye that volume on her lap is ...
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... nature's laws God cast the veil of night : Out blazed a Newton's soul - and all was light . AARON HILL . Their discords sting through Burns and Moore , Like hedgehogs dress'd in lace . O. W. HOLMES : Music Grinders . Good Homer ...
... nature's laws God cast the veil of night : Out blazed a Newton's soul - and all was light . AARON HILL . Their discords sting through Burns and Moore , Like hedgehogs dress'd in lace . O. W. HOLMES : Music Grinders . Good Homer ...
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... Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night- God said , " Let Newton be ! " and all was light . POPE . Here swells the shelf with Ogilby the great ; There , stamp'd with arms , Newcastle shines complete . Otway fail'd to polish or refine ...
... Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night- God said , " Let Newton be ! " and all was light . POPE . Here swells the shelf with Ogilby the great ; There , stamp'd with arms , Newcastle shines complete . Otway fail'd to polish or refine ...
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... nature's fountains scorn'd to draw . POPE . Even rival wits did Voiture's fate deplore , And the gay mourn'd , who never mourn'd before . POPE . The truest hearts for Voiture heaved with sighs ; Voiture was wept by all the brightest ...
... nature's fountains scorn'd to draw . POPE . Even rival wits did Voiture's fate deplore , And the gay mourn'd , who never mourn'd before . POPE . The truest hearts for Voiture heaved with sighs ; Voiture was wept by all the brightest ...
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