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... manners till the Fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that fortitude , with which Abdiel maintained his singularity of virtue ...
... manners till the Fall , it can give little assistance to human conduct . Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures . Yet the praise of that fortitude , with which Abdiel maintained his singularity of virtue ...
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... manner of its contrivance , in relation of the parts to the whole . ' 3 The manners , or decency of the characters , in speaking or acting what is proper for them , and proper to be shewn by the poet . ' 4 The thoughts which express the ...
... manner of its contrivance , in relation of the parts to the whole . ' 3 The manners , or decency of the characters , in speaking or acting what is proper for them , and proper to be shewn by the poet . ' 4 The thoughts which express the ...
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... manners , ( which include all the speeches , as being no other than the representations of each person's manners by his words :) and then in that rapture and fire , which carries you away with him , with that wonderful force , that no ...
... manners , ( which include all the speeches , as being no other than the representations of each person's manners by his words :) and then in that rapture and fire , which carries you away with him , with that wonderful force , that no ...
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Introduction | 5 |
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