Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... reputation . It may be therefore reasonably supposed that his manners were polite , and his conversa- tion pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper ...
... reputation . It may be therefore reasonably supposed that his manners were polite , and his conversa- tion pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper ...
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... reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have been copying one another many hundred years without any improvement , or , if they have ventured farther , have only applied in a me- chanical manner the rules of ancient ...
... reputation of acute grammarians and commentators ; men who have been copying one another many hundred years without any improvement , or , if they have ventured farther , have only applied in a me- chanical manner the rules of ancient ...
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... reputation , extenuates their faults , and sets off their virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is himself ...
... reputation , extenuates their faults , and sets off their virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is himself ...
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... reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the two last had neither friends nor enemies . Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character ...
... reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the two last had neither friends nor enemies . Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part of a character ...
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... reputation , to have been esteemed with- out virtue , and caressed without good humour . Pope was .. proud of his notice . Wycherley wrote verses in his praise , which he was charged by Dennis with writing to himself , and they agreed ...
... reputation , to have been esteemed with- out virtue , and caressed without good humour . Pope was .. proud of his notice . Wycherley wrote verses in his praise , which he was charged by Dennis with writing to himself , and they agreed ...
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