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Page 111
... expected that the wine should be paid for by him that drank it , his method of composition was , to take them with him to his own apartment , assume the government of the house , and order the butler in an imperious manner to set the ...
... expected that the wine should be paid for by him that drank it , his method of composition was , to take them with him to his own apartment , assume the government of the house , and order the butler in an imperious manner to set the ...
Page 335
... expected that any character should be exactly uniform . There is a degree of want by which the freedom of agency is almost destroyed ; and long association with fortuitous com- panions will at last relax the strictness of truth , and ...
... expected that any character should be exactly uniform . There is a degree of want by which the freedom of agency is almost destroyed ; and long association with fortuitous com- panions will at last relax the strictness of truth , and ...
Page 412
... expected , and something uncommon was at last done ; for to the Doctor's edition is appended , what the world had hardly seen before , a list of errors in nineteen pages . But to politics and literature there must be an end . Lord ...
... expected , and something uncommon was at last done ; for to the Doctor's edition is appended , what the world had hardly seen before , a list of errors in nineteen pages . But to politics and literature there must be an end . Lord ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt conversation criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination Johnson's Lives kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Landsdowne Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once opinion Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published Queen racter reader reason received reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young