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Page 58
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his house- hold ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency of Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his house- hold ...
Page 256
... lived many years after the publication of his Miscellaneous Poems , yet he added nothing to them , but lived on in literary indolence ; engaged in no controversy , contending with no rival , neither soliciting flattery by publick ...
... lived many years after the publication of his Miscellaneous Poems , yet he added nothing to them , but lived on in literary indolence ; engaged in no controversy , contending with no rival , neither soliciting flattery by publick ...
Page 395
... lived splendidly without expence , and might expect when he returned home a certain establishment . At this time a long course of opposition to Sir Robert Walpole had filled the nation with clamours for liberty , of which no man felt ...
... lived splendidly without expence , and might expect when he returned home a certain establishment . At this time a long course of opposition to Sir Robert Walpole had filled the nation with clamours for liberty , of which no man felt ...
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Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote