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" Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it : nay he doth,... "
The Retrospective Review - Page 49
1824
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry

Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...the way, as will entice " any man to enter into it ; nay, the Poet doth, as if your journey should be "through a fair vineyard, at the very first give you...grapes, that, " full of that taste, you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with oblt seure definitions, but he cometh to you with words set in delightful...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...shew the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it : Nay, he doth, as if your journey should lie through...grapes ; that, full of that taste, you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions; which must blur the margent with interpretations,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...shew the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man .to enter into it: Nay, he doth, as if your journey should lie through...grapes ; that, full of that taste, you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions; which must blur the margent with interpretations,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...shew the way> but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice' any man to enter into it : Nay, he doth, as -if your journey should lie through a fair v/neyard, «,t the ' very first, give you a cluster of grapes ; that, full of that taste, you may long...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...as will entice • " any man to enter into it ; nay, the Poet doth, as if your journey should be " must flow, And that dear hut,, our houie. Of rest...bereft. When with impatient wing she left That safe ret farther. He beginneth not with obn scure definitions, but he cometh to you with words get in delightful...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...shew the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it : Nay, he doth, as if your journey should lie through...cluster of grapes ; that, full of that taste, you ma^ long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions; which must blur the margent with...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...shew the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will intice any man to enter into it : nay, he doth, as if your journey should lie through...grapes, that, full of that taste, you may long to pass farther. - He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations,...
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The New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1

Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...show the way, hut giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it. Nay, he doth as if your journey should lie through...full of that taste, you may long to pass further. He heginnetlˇ not with ohscure defmitions, which must hlur the margcnt with interpretations, and load...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 3

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it: nay, he doth, as if your journey should be through a fair vineyard, at the very first, give you a cluster of grapes, that, full of that laste, you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 3

Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it: nay, he doth, as if your journey should be through a fair vineyard, at the very first, give you a cluster of grapes, that, lull of that taste, you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which...
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