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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ... - Page 170
by Great Britain - 1804
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Five hundred years of Chaucer criticism and allusion : 1357-1900. 2, Volume 1

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 pages
...the Dishes were ill sorted ; whole Pyramids of Sweet-meats for Boys and "Women ; but little of solid Meat for Men : All this proceeded not from any want...Knowledge, but of Judgment ; neither did he want that in discerning the Beauties and Faults of other Poets; but only indulg'd himself in the Luxury of Writing...
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The Preface to the Fables

62 pages
...the Dishes were ill sorted; whole Pyramids of Sweet-meats, for Boys and Women ; but little of solid Meat, for Men : All this proceeded not from any want...Knowledge, but of Judgment; neither did he want that in discerning the Beauties and Faults of other Poets; but only indulg'd himself in the Luxury of Writing;...
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Selected Poems

John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pages
...but the dishes were ill sorted: whole pyramids of sweetmeats for boys and women, but little of solid meat for men. All this proceeded not from any want of knowledge, but of judgement; neither did he want that in 365 discerning the beauties and faults of other poets, but only...
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