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... excellence of the letterpress should carry it into every home where Art is appreciated . " Standard . Cassell's Saturday Journal . Illustrated . Weekly , 1d . Monthly , 6d . " Is the best and cheapest pennyworth of popular literature ...
... excellence of the letterpress should carry it into every home where Art is appreciated . " Standard . Cassell's Saturday Journal . Illustrated . Weekly , 1d . Monthly , 6d . " Is the best and cheapest pennyworth of popular literature ...
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... excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's ode on Namur has in some parts such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among those who cannot compare it with the original . The epistle to Boileau is not so happy . The ...
... excellence . The burlesque of Boileau's ode on Namur has in some parts such airiness and levity as will always procure it readers , even among those who cannot compare it with the original . The epistle to Boileau is not so happy . The ...
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... excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself sometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own tail ...
... excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself sometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own tail ...
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... excellence that , for half a year before it was acted , the manager allowed its author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer , for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who im- mediately ...
... excellence that , for half a year before it was acted , the manager allowed its author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer , for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who im- mediately ...
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... excellence , they are lost at once in the blaze of admiration , when it is remembered that he had produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty- fifth year , before other men , even such as are some time to shine in eminence ...
... excellence , they are lost at once in the blaze of admiration , when it is remembered that he had produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty- fifth year , before other men , even such as are some time to shine in eminence ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English poets Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise present printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation RICHARD HAKLUYT ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey write written wrote