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Page 92
... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclina- tion of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
... virtue made it innocent to him , yet nothing could make it quiet . Those were the reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclina- tion of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his former business , had still called upon ...
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... virtue , he had ready for him , whom he wished to court on the morrow , new wit and virtue with another stamp . Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice , or lament the necessity : he considers the great as ...
... virtue , he had ready for him , whom he wished to court on the morrow , new wit and virtue with another stamp . Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice , or lament the necessity : he considers the great as ...
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... Virtue only is our own . So unaffected , so compos'd a mind , So firm , yet soft , so strong , yet so refin'd , Heaven , as its purest gold , by tortures try'd , The saint sustained it , but the woman dy'd . I have always considered ...
... Virtue only is our own . So unaffected , so compos'd a mind , So firm , yet soft , so strong , yet so refin'd , Heaven , as its purest gold , by tortures try'd , The saint sustained it , but the woman dy'd . I have always considered ...
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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