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... tion , and terrour with little danger . To fee the highest minds thus levelled with the meaneft , may produce fome folace to the consciousness of weaknefs , and fome morti- fication to the pride of wisdom . But let it be be remembered ...
... tion , and terrour with little danger . To fee the highest minds thus levelled with the meaneft , may produce fome folace to the consciousness of weaknefs , and fome morti- fication to the pride of wisdom . But let it be be remembered ...
Page 56
... tion , and endeavoured to perfuade the publick that its approbation had been to that time mifplaced . Settle was a while in high re- putation : his Empress of Morocco , having firft delighted the town , was carried in tri- umph to ...
... tion , and endeavoured to perfuade the publick that its approbation had been to that time mifplaced . Settle was a while in high re- putation : his Empress of Morocco , having firft delighted the town , was carried in tri- umph to ...
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... tion which it was his interest to suppress , and which , unless provoked by vindication , few were likely to examine . Though the life of a writer , from about thirty - five to fixty - three , may be supposed to have been fufficiently ...
... tion which it was his interest to suppress , and which , unless provoked by vindication , few were likely to examine . Though the life of a writer , from about thirty - five to fixty - three , may be supposed to have been fufficiently ...
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... tion ; but it is not , I fuppofe , so much to be inferred , that Dryden wanted the litera- ture neceffary to the perufal of Tacitus , as that , confidering himfelf as hidden in a crowd , he had no awe of the publick ; and , writing ...
... tion ; but it is not , I fuppofe , so much to be inferred , that Dryden wanted the litera- ture neceffary to the perufal of Tacitus , as that , confidering himfelf as hidden in a crowd , he had no awe of the publick ; and , writing ...
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... tion , to which himself fet a most noble 66 example . At laft a day , about three " weeks after Mr. Dryden's decease , was " appointed for the interment . Dr. Garth " pronounced a fine Latin oration , at the 66 College , over the corpfe ...
... tion , to which himself fet a most noble 66 example . At laft a day , about three " weeks after Mr. Dryden's decease , was " appointed for the interment . Dr. Garth " pronounced a fine Latin oration , at the 66 College , over the corpfe ...
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