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Page 58
... praise , and its praise is yet more when it is apparently copied by Garth and Pope ; after whose names little will be gained by an enumeration of smaller poets , that have left scarce a corner of the island not dignified either by rhyme ...
... praise , and its praise is yet more when it is apparently copied by Garth and Pope ; after whose names little will be gained by an enumeration of smaller poets , that have left scarce a corner of the island not dignified either by rhyme ...
Page 246
... praise with mouths of loggerheads . With noise and laughing each thy fustian greets , ' Tis clapt by quires of empty ... praises those of his lady , not only as a lover but a partner of his studies . It is unpleasing to think how many ...
... praise with mouths of loggerheads . With noise and laughing each thy fustian greets , ' Tis clapt by quires of empty ... praises those of his lady , not only as a lover but a partner of his studies . It is unpleasing to think how many ...
Page 379
... praise wears gradually away ; and perhaps the pride of patronage may be in time so increased , that modest praise will no longer please . Many a blandishment was practised upon Halifax , which he would never have known , had he had no ...
... praise wears gradually away ; and perhaps the pride of patronage may be in time so increased , that modest praise will no longer please . Many a blandishment was practised upon Halifax , which he would never have known , had he had no ...
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