Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... resolution was soon taken of courting general approbation by general topics , and subjects on which faction had produced no diversity of sentiments— such as literature , morality , and familiar life . To this practice they adhered with ...
... resolution was soon taken of courting general approbation by general topics , and subjects on which faction had produced no diversity of sentiments— such as literature , morality , and familiar life . To this practice they adhered with ...
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... it is probable more consequences were at first intended than could be produced when the resolution was taken to exclude party from the paper . Sir Andrew does but little , and that little seems not to have pleased 18 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... it is probable more consequences were at first intended than could be produced when the resolution was taken to exclude party from the paper . Sir Andrew does but little , and that little seems not to have pleased 18 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... resolution , or made his plan for what he designed to write , he would walk about a room and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down , and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he ...
... resolution , or made his plan for what he designed to write , he would walk about a room and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down , and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he ...
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... resolution , their obstinacy of courage and vigour of onset are well illustrated by the sea that breaks , with incessant battery , the dykes of Holland . This is a simile . But when Addison , having celebrated the beauty of ...
... resolution , their obstinacy of courage and vigour of onset are well illustrated by the sea that breaks , with incessant battery , the dykes of Holland . This is a simile . But when Addison , having celebrated the beauty of ...
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... resolution of disowning him ; and in a very short time removed him from her sight , by committing him to the care of a poor woman , whom she directed to educate him as her own , and enjoined never to inform him of his true parents ...
... resolution of disowning him ; and in a very short time removed him from her sight , by committing him to the care of a poor woman , whom she directed to educate him as her own , and enjoined never to inform him of his true parents ...
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