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... formed at once ; the words did not come till they were called , and were then put by constraint into their places , where they do their duty , but do it sullenly . In his greater compositions there may be found more rigid stateliness ...
... formed at once ; the words did not come till they were called , and were then put by constraint into their places , where they do their duty , but do it sullenly . In his greater compositions there may be found more rigid stateliness ...
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... formed for a con- trovertist , with sufficient learning , with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect , with un- conquerable pertinacity , with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic , and with all those ...
... formed for a con- trovertist , with sufficient learning , with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect , with un- conquerable pertinacity , with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic , and with all those ...
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... formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected answers ; but that which he endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or ...
... formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected answers ; but that which he endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or ...
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... formed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have ...
... formed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have ...
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... formation of the person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but diversified by various specific cha- racters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and allayed by different proportions of phlegm , or reduced and regulated ...
... formation of the person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but diversified by various specific cha- racters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and allayed by different proportions of phlegm , or reduced and regulated ...
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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