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... reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer . The public sometimes has its fa- vourites whom it rewards for one species of excellence with the honours due to another . From ...
... reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer . The public sometimes has its fa- vourites whom it rewards for one species of excellence with the honours due to another . From ...
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... reputation , censured him , in a piece called " Homerides , " before it was published . Ducket likewise endeavoured to make him ri- diculous . Dennis was the perpetual persecutor of all his studies . But , whoever his critics were ...
... reputation , censured him , in a piece called " Homerides , " before it was published . Ducket likewise endeavoured to make him ri- diculous . Dennis was the perpetual persecutor of all his studies . But , whoever his critics were ...
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... reputation , but never attained any great extent of practice , or eminence of popularity . A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is , for the most part , totally casual : they ...
... reputation , but never attained any great extent of practice , or eminence of popularity . A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is , for the most part , totally casual : they ...
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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