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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 280
... praise , he no longer retains shame in himself , nor supposes it in his patron . As many odoriferous bodies are observed to diffuse perfumes from year to year , without sensible diminution of bulk or weight , he appears never to have ...
... praise , he no longer retains shame in himself , nor supposes it in his patron . As many odoriferous bodies are observed to diffuse perfumes from year to year , without sensible diminution of bulk or weight , he appears never to have ...
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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