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Page 79
... imitation of Tully on Old Age has neither the clearness of prose , nor the spriteliness of poetry . 6 The ' strength of Denham , ' which Pope so emphatically 34 mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which 1 1 Post ...
... imitation of Tully on Old Age has neither the clearness of prose , nor the spriteliness of poetry . 6 The ' strength of Denham , ' which Pope so emphatically 34 mentions , is to be found in many lines and couplets , which 1 1 Post ...
Page 320
... imitation of the readers . It will be in the power of very few to imitate the duke of Marlborough ; we must be content with admiring his great qualities and actions , without hopes of following them . The private and social virtues are ...
... imitation of the readers . It will be in the power of very few to imitate the duke of Marlborough ; we must be content with admiring his great qualities and actions , without hopes of following them . The private and social virtues are ...
Page 324
... imitate , and himself be inimitable ? that he should do all this before he was twenty ? at an age , which is usually ... imitation of Milton , under the title of The Splendid Shilling , & c . This is to give notice that it will be ...
... imitate , and himself be inimitable ? that he should do all this before he was twenty ? at an age , which is usually ... imitation of Milton , under the title of The Splendid Shilling , & c . This is to give notice that it will be ...
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