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... delight : Sir Walter Scott affirmed that it displayed qualifications which have seldom been concentrated to the same degree in any literary undertaking ; and Lord Macaulay pro- nounces the narratives to be as " " entertaining as any ...
... delight : Sir Walter Scott affirmed that it displayed qualifications which have seldom been concentrated to the same degree in any literary undertaking ; and Lord Macaulay pro- nounces the narratives to be as " " entertaining as any ...
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... delight to read , till by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that par- ticular designation of ...
... delight to read , till by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that par- ticular designation of ...
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... delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . ' So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shown ! But actions are visible , though motives ...
... delights of solitary studies , of temperate pleasures , and a moderate revenue below the malice and flatteries of fortune . ' So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shown ! But actions are visible , though motives ...
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... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys , which we entire should wed , Come deflowr'd virgins to our bed ...
... delight , Who , whilst thou should'st but taste , devour'st it quite ! Thou bring'st us an estate , yet leav'st us poor , By clogging it with legacies before ! The joys , which we entire should wed , Come deflowr'd virgins to our bed ...
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... delight , My verse , great Rhea's son , which is Lofty as that and smooth as this . In the Nemean ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe , whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns ...
... delight , My verse , great Rhea's son , which is Lofty as that and smooth as this . In the Nemean ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe , whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns ...
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acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind king known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise present produced published queen reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey Whigs write written wrote Young