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" Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his rhymes, which are always good, and very often the better for being new. "
Bell's Edition - Page xlvii
by John Bell - 1784
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The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1744 - 496 pages
...fay, if I were not afraid the Reader would think me too nice, that He commonly clofes with Verbs ; in which we know the life of language confifts. Among...Rhymes: which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that fenfe was cloy'd by the fame round...
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The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1768 - 366 pages
...c!ores with Verbs; io which we know the life of language confifts. Among other improremenU, we raty reckon that of His rhymes: which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that fenfe was cloyed by the fame round...
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The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose

Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...and value. Such advances may a great Genius make, wl:e» it undertakes any thing in earneft ! We i Among other improvements, we may reckon that of His...rhymes : which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He had a fine'ear, and knew how quickly that lenfe was c'.oyed by the fame round...
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The Works of the English Poets: Waller

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 346 pages
...fay, if I were not afraid the reader would think me too nice, that He commonly clofes with Verbs ; in which we know the life of language confifts. Among...rhymes : which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that fenfe was cloyed by the fame round...
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The Works of the English Poets: Waller

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 284 pages
...think me too nice, that He commonly clofes with Verbs ; in which we know the life of languageconfifts. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his...rhymes : which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that fenfe was clbyed by the fame round...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 274 pages
...improvements, we may reckon that of his rhymes : which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that fenfe was cloyed by the fame round of chiming words ftill returning upon it. It is a decided cafe by the Great...
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The Epistolary Correspondence, Visitation Charges, Speeches, and ..., Volume 2

Francis Atterbury - English letters - 1783 - 478 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly clofes with verbs, in which we know the life of language confifls. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his...rhymes: which are always good, and very often the better for being new. ATTERBURY'S PREFACE He had a fine ear, and knew how "quickly that fenfe was cloyed...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...

Edmund Waller - 1806 - 320 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly closes with verbs, in which we know the life of language consists. Among other improvements we may reckon that of his rhymes, which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that sense was cloyed by the same round...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 652 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly closes with verbs; in which we know the life of langnage consists. Among other improvements, we may reckon that of his...rhymes: which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He bad a fine, ear, and knew how quickly that sense was cloyed by the same round...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 268 pages
...think me too nice, that he commonly closes with verbs, in which we know the life of language consists. Among other improvements we may reckon that of his rhymes, which are always good, and very often the better for being new. He had a fine ear, and knew how quickly that sense was cloyed by the same round...
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