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... give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes of " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author . " Johnson replied , " Sir , Lord Hailes has forgot . There is nothing in ...
... give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes of " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author . " Johnson replied , " Sir , Lord Hailes has forgot . There is nothing in ...
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... give him any education beyond that of the school , took him , when he was well advanced in literature , to his own house , where the Earl of Dorset , celebrated for patronage of genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading ...
... give him any education beyond that of the school , took him , when he was well advanced in literature , to his own house , where the Earl of Dorset , celebrated for patronage of genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading ...
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... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . " Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It ...
... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . " Soon after , the Duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It ...
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... give a different turn to our Parliament and our people according to their resolution at this crisis . " Prior's public dignity and splendour commenced in August , 1713 , and continued till the August following ; but I am afraid that ...
... give a different turn to our Parliament and our people according to their resolution at this crisis . " Prior's public dignity and splendour commenced in August , 1713 , and continued till the August following ; but I am afraid that ...
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... give such an account of it to the Commons as might merit favour ; and that they now thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house . " Here , " says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the Christian , but ...
... give such an account of it to the Commons as might merit favour ; and that they now thought a stricter confinement necessary than to his own house . " Here , " says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the Christian , but ...
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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