The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... friendship the greater praife must be given to Steele . It is not hard to love thofe from whom nothing can be feared ... friend , probably without much purpose of repayment ; but Addifon , who seems to have had other notions of a hundred ...
... friendship the greater praife must be given to Steele . It is not hard to love thofe from whom nothing can be feared ... friend , probably without much purpose of repayment ; but Addifon , who seems to have had other notions of a hundred ...
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... friend- ship ; but , on one fide or the other , friend- ship was too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and difcri- minative character of Spenfer , whose work he had then never read * . So little ...
... friend- ship ; but , on one fide or the other , friend- ship was too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and difcri- minative character of Spenfer , whose work he had then never read * . So little ...
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... friends : " For , “ said he , I may have a hundred friends ; and , cc " if my fee be two guineas , I " if 12 ADDISON .
... friends : " For , “ said he , I may have a hundred friends ; and , cc " if my fee be two guineas , I " if 12 ADDISON .
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And a Criticism of Their Works Samuel Johnson. appearance of a friend . The tumult of those unhappy days left scarcely any man leisure to treasure up occafional compofitions ; and fo much were they neglected , that a complete collection ...
And a Criticism of Their Works Samuel Johnson. appearance of a friend . The tumult of those unhappy days left scarcely any man leisure to treasure up occafional compofitions ; and fo much were they neglected , that a complete collection ...
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... friend's indignation , that he was forced to appease him by a promise of forbearing Sir Roger for the time to come . The reafon which induced Cervantes to bring his hero to the grave , para mi fola nacio Don Quix- ote , y yo para el ...
... friend's indignation , that he was forced to appease him by a promise of forbearing Sir Roger for the time to come . The reafon which induced Cervantes to bring his hero to the grave , para mi fola nacio Don Quix- ote , y yo para el ...
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Addiſon afterwards againſt almoſt anſwer appear aſked becauſe beſt Cato cenfure character compofitions confidered converfation criticiſm critick defign defire diſcovered Dryden Dunciad eaſily eaſy Effay elegance Engliſh epitaph faid fame fatire fays feems fent fentiments fhall fhew fince firft firſt folicited fome fomething fometimes foon friends friendſhip ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuffered fufficiently fupply fuppofed furely himſelf honour houſe Iliad intereft kindneſs king laft laſt leaſt lefs likewife Lord maſter ment mind moſt Mufe muſt nature neceffary never numbers obferved occafion paffages paffed paffion perfonal perhaps pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praiſe prefent profe publick publiſhed purpoſe racter raiſe reader reaſon ſay ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſtage ſtate Steele ſtudy ſuch ſuppoſed Swift Syphax Tatler themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought thouſand Tickell tion tranflation uſed verfe verfion verſes Whigs whofe whoſe write written wrote