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... mind , and from the pleasure which he must have felt in for ever silencing all attempts to lessen his poetical fame . I remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man ...
... mind , and from the pleasure which he must have felt in for ever silencing all attempts to lessen his poetical fame . I remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man ...
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... mind what he represents him in his verses ; he considered him as a hero , and was accustomed to say that he praised others in compliance with the fashion , but that in celebrating King William he followed his inclination . To Prior ...
... mind what he represents him in his verses ; he considered him as a hero , and was accustomed to say that he praised others in compliance with the fashion , but that in celebrating King William he followed his inclination . To Prior ...
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... pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover . We are seldom tire- some to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover . We are seldom tire- some to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of 24 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... mind without the intervention of any other speaker or the mention of any other agent , unless it be Abra ; the reader is only to learn what he thought , and to be told that he thought wrong . The event of every experiment is foreseen ...
... mind without the intervention of any other speaker or the mention of any other agent , unless it be Abra ; the reader is only to learn what he thought , and to be told that he thought wrong . The event of every experiment is foreseen ...
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... mind vigorous and acute , and furnished with comic characters by the perusal of other poets , without much actual commerce with mankind . The dialogue is one constant reciprocation of conceits or clash of wit , in which nothing flows ...
... mind vigorous and acute , and furnished with comic characters by the perusal of other poets , without much actual commerce with mankind . The dialogue is one constant reciprocation of conceits or clash of wit , in which nothing flows ...
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