Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... knowledge and dexterity , at last sent to transact a nego- tiation in the highest degree arduous and important , for which he was qualified , among other requisites , in the opinion of Bolingbroke , by his influence upon the French ...
... knowledge and dexterity , at last sent to transact a nego- tiation in the highest degree arduous and important , for which he was qualified , among other requisites , in the opinion of Bolingbroke , by his influence upon the French ...
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... knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sub- limity he perceived in it many excellences , and did not discover that it wanted that without which ...
... knowledge and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance , often dignified it with splendour , and sometimes heightened it to sub- limity he perceived in it many excellences , and did not discover that it wanted that without which ...
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... knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty , therefore , is to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But if The Old Bachelor be more nearly examined , it will be found to ...
... knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty , therefore , is to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But if The Old Bachelor be more nearly examined , it will be found to ...
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... knowledge , and a great felicity in finding out trifles . He is no less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects , and takes more ore pleasure in commending the beauties than ...
... knowledge , and a great felicity in finding out trifles . He is no less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects , and takes more ore pleasure in commending the beauties than ...
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... knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from his preface to the " Treatise on the Small - pox " will afford a specimen , in which , when the reader finds what I fear is true , that , when he was censuring ...
... knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from his preface to the " Treatise on the Small - pox " will afford a specimen , in which , when the reader finds what I fear is true , that , when he was censuring ...
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