Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... kindness . Savage drew largely on him for sympathy , and had it ; although Johnson was too clear - sighted to be much deceived except in judgment upon the fraudulent claims which then gave rise to division of opinion . The Life of ...
... kindness . Savage drew largely on him for sympathy , and had it ; although Johnson was too clear - sighted to be much deceived except in judgment upon the fraudulent claims which then gave rise to division of opinion . The Life of ...
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... kindness . • Of essays thus elegant , thus instructive , and thus commodiously distributed , it is natural to suppose the approbation general , and the sale numerous . I once heard it observed that the sale may be calculated by the ...
... kindness . • Of essays thus elegant , thus instructive , and thus commodiously distributed , it is natural to suppose the approbation general , and the sale numerous . I once heard it observed that the sale may be calculated by the ...
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... kindness for each other . The " Old Whig " answered " The Plebeian , " and could not forbear some contempt of " little Dicky , whose trade it was to write pamphlets . " Dicky , however , did not lose his settled veneration for his ...
... kindness for each other . The " Old Whig " answered " The Plebeian , " and could not forbear some contempt of " little Dicky , whose trade it was to write pamphlets . " Dicky , however , did not lose his settled veneration for his ...
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... kindness . The purpose for which the interview had been solicited was then discovered . Addison told him that he had injured him ; but that , if he recovered , he would recompense him . What the injury was he did not explain , nor did ...
... kindness . The purpose for which the interview had been solicited was then discovered . Addison told him that he had injured him ; but that , if he recovered , he would recompense him . What the injury was he did not explain , nor did ...
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... kindness for the merit of his opponents ; when he was Secretary in Ireland , he refused to intermit his acquaintance with Swift . Of his habits or external manners , nothing is so often mentioned as that timorous or sullen taciturnity ...
... kindness for the merit of his opponents ; when he was Secretary in Ireland , he refused to intermit his acquaintance with Swift . Of his habits or external manners , nothing is so often mentioned as that timorous or sullen taciturnity ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards allowed appeared calamities Cato censure character Chevy Chase conduct considered contempt conversation criticism death declared Delany discovered distress elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius Georgic honour imagined Ireland Juba Juba's justly kindness knew letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner mentioned merit mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet panegyric paper passion pension performance perhaps person pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical Pope pounds praise procured promise published queen reader reason received regard reputation resentment resolution retired Richard Savage Savage Savage's says scrupulosity Sempronius sentiments Sir Richard Sir Richard Steele Sir Robert Walpole Sir Thomas Overbury solicited sometimes soon Spectator Steele suffered sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tenderness thought Tickell tion told tragedy verses virtue Whigs write wrote