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... images . " The Young Gentleman in Love " has hardly a just claim to the title of a tale . I know not whether he be the original author of any tale which he has given us . The adventure of Hans Carvel has passed through many successions ...
... images . " The Young Gentleman in Love " has hardly a just claim to the title of a tale . I know not whether he be the original author of any tale which he has given us . The adventure of Hans Carvel has passed through many successions ...
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... images . Every couplet , when produced , is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had ...
... images . Every couplet , when produced , is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had ...
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... images , and quick in combination . Of his miscellaneous poetry I cannot say anything very favourable . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when he could touch the ...
... images , and quick in combination . Of his miscellaneous poetry I cannot say anything very favourable . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when he could touch the ...
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... image , but meets it again amplified and expanded , embellished with beauty and enlarged with majesty . Yet could the author ... images of ice , while she complained , Now loosed their streams ; as when descending rains Roll CONGREVE . 39.
... image , but meets it again amplified and expanded , embellished with beauty and enlarged with majesty . Yet could the author ... images of ice , while she complained , Now loosed their streams ; as when descending rains Roll CONGREVE . 39.
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... images , collected from innu- merable objects , and their different qualities , relations , and habitudes , it can at pleasure dress a common notion in a strange but becoming garb , by which , as before observed , the same thought will ...
... images , collected from innu- merable objects , and their different qualities , relations , and habitudes , it can at pleasure dress a common notion in a strange but becoming garb , by which , as before observed , the same thought will ...
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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