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Rh and we stand amazed to think that Man could ever be a Rebel, who had seen, as it were, and described, in all the Pomp of Terror, the Rebellion and Punishment of the Apostate Angels.

Cowley I need not insist on, when his Character is so admirably drawn by so great a Master, as I have named already.

Waller for the Music of his Numbers, the Courtliness of his Verse, the Easiness and Happiness of his Thoughts on a thousand Subjects, deserves Your Lordship's Consideration more, perhaps, than any other, because his Manner and his Subjects are more common to Rh