The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... attention of the people from pub lic difcontent . The Tatler and Spectator had the fame tendency : they were published at a time when two parties , loud , restless , and violent , each with plaufible declarations , and each perhaps ...
... attention of the people from pub lic difcontent . The Tatler and Spectator had the fame tendency : they were published at a time when two parties , loud , restless , and violent , each with plaufible declarations , and each perhaps ...
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... attention of the publick upon a criticism , which , though fometimes intemper- ate , was often irrefragable . While Cato was upon the stage , another daily paper called the Guardian was published by Steele . To this Addison gave great ...
... attention of the publick upon a criticism , which , though fometimes intemper- ate , was often irrefragable . While Cato was upon the stage , another daily paper called the Guardian was published by Steele . To this Addison gave great ...
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... attention : for there is not one amongst them that strongly attracts either affection or efteem . But they are made the vehicles of fuch fentiments and fuch expreffion , that there is scarcely a scene in the the play which the reader ...
... attention : for there is not one amongst them that strongly attracts either affection or efteem . But they are made the vehicles of fuch fentiments and fuch expreffion , that there is scarcely a scene in the the play which the reader ...
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... attention is led on through a long fucceffion of varied excellence to the original pofition , the fundamental principle of wisdom and of virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to infert , as ...
... attention is led on through a long fucceffion of varied excellence to the original pofition , the fundamental principle of wisdom and of virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to infert , as ...
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... attention to Statutes or Reports . His difpofition to become an author appear- ed very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and poffeffed that copiousness of fentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given ...
... attention to Statutes or Reports . His difpofition to become an author appear- ed very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and poffeffed that copiousness of fentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given ...
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