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... said on this fubject ; but only relate the occafion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always refpected + , found him in an unusual ...
... said on this fubject ; but only relate the occafion and manner of his writing it . Mr. St. John , afterwards Lord Bolingbroke , hap- pening to pay a morning vifit to Dryden , whom he always refpected + , found him in an unusual ...
Page 149
... said , that fuch torrents of eloquence were muddy as well as noify ; and that these violent and tumultuous authors , put him in mind of a paffage in Milton , B. ii . v . 539 . Others , with vaft Typhæan rage more fell , Rend up both ...
... said , that fuch torrents of eloquence were muddy as well as noify ; and that these violent and tumultuous authors , put him in mind of a paffage in Milton , B. ii . v . 539 . Others , with vaft Typhæan rage more fell , Rend up both ...
Page 364
... said to me , My friend POPE , confidering your infirmities , and my age upon his and eve thi you If ΙΗ mel ent wh forr rep thin abid fo to and fo m tefti ente wrot Thir * I ton : in his at leaft became his fac fagacit rather and any gre ...
... said to me , My friend POPE , confidering your infirmities , and my age upon his and eve thi you If ΙΗ mel ent wh forr rep thin abid fo to and fo m tefti ente wrot Thir * I ton : in his at leaft became his fac fagacit rather and any gre ...
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