The lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Rivington, 1820 |
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... thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce ef fects proportionate to the magnificence of the trans- action . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so ...
... thing equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce ef fects proportionate to the magnificence of the trans- action . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so ...
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... thing that approached to the ridiculous or absurd ; but as laws operate in civil agency not to the excitement of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce ...
... thing that approached to the ridiculous or absurd ; but as laws operate in civil agency not to the excitement of virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce ...
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... things requisite to the success of its exhibition , and , by their greater experience , fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , probably of this , that , when Congreve read it to the players , he pronounced it ...
... things requisite to the success of its exhibition , and , by their greater experience , fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , probably of this , that , when Congreve read it to the players , he pronounced it ...
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... things , and are formed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the re- putation of acute grammarians and commentators ...
... things , and are formed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the re- putation of acute grammarians and commentators ...
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... things besides , agreed in their turn to shew parti- cular respect and friendship to this insolent de- rider of the worship of his country , till at last the reputed writer is not only gone off with impunity , but triumphs in his ...
... things besides , agreed in their turn to shew parti- cular respect and friendship to this insolent de- rider of the worship of his country , till at last the reputed writer is not only gone off with impunity , but triumphs in his ...
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