The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a General Treatise on Composition and Style: Instruction in English Composition, with Exercises for Paraphrasing; and an Elaborate Letter-writer's Vademecum, in which are Numerous Rules and Suggestions Relating to the Epistolary Art, Volumes 1-3 |
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... Milton 225 GOD'S MERCY - Jeremy Taylor 226 • DISCOURSES BY WAY OF ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE - Abraham Cowley 226 PILGRIM'S PROGRESS - John Bunyan 227 AN ESSAY UPON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF GOVERNMENT - Contents of Fart I. XV.
... Milton 225 GOD'S MERCY - Jeremy Taylor 226 • DISCOURSES BY WAY OF ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE - Abraham Cowley 226 PILGRIM'S PROGRESS - John Bunyan 227 AN ESSAY UPON THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF GOVERNMENT - Contents of Fart I. XV.
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... verses , " which only he of living men could have written , " Pope , at thirty , was owner of six thousand pounds made by his pen , and was living in such learned ease and affluence as had till then been unknown by English authors ...
... verses , " which only he of living men could have written , " Pope , at thirty , was owner of six thousand pounds made by his pen , and was living in such learned ease and affluence as had till then been unknown by English authors ...
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... verse . --Dryden on Dramatic Poesy . If policy can prevail upon ( over ) force . Addison's Travels . This effect we may safely say , no one beforehand could have promised upon . - Hume's Hist . of England . A greater quantity may be ...
... verse . --Dryden on Dramatic Poesy . If policy can prevail upon ( over ) force . Addison's Travels . This effect we may safely say , no one beforehand could have promised upon . - Hume's Hist . of England . A greater quantity may be ...
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... verses of Nævius , preserved by Aulus Gellius , had been educated by Olympias at the court of Philip , it is improbable that he would have restored the beautiful Spaniard . Ibid . The works of Lord Bolingbroke abound with clumsy ...
... verses of Nævius , preserved by Aulus Gellius , had been educated by Olympias at the court of Philip , it is improbable that he would have restored the beautiful Spaniard . Ibid . The works of Lord Bolingbroke abound with clumsy ...
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... verse and their prose.- Temple on Poetry . And then those who are of an inferior condition , that they labour and be diligent in the work of an honest calling , for this is privately good and profitable unto men , and to their families ...
... verse and their prose.- Temple on Poetry . And then those who are of an inferior condition , that they labour and be diligent in the work of an honest calling , for this is privately good and profitable unto men , and to their families ...
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