The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... hand would do him wrong . It may be doubted whether Addison ever filled up his original delineation . He describes his Knight as having his imagination fome- what warped ; but of this perverfion he has made very little ufe . The ...
... hand would do him wrong . It may be doubted whether Addison ever filled up his original delineation . He describes his Knight as having his imagination fome- what warped ; but of this perverfion he has made very little ufe . The ...
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... hand , and bis honour on the other , to fend it into the world without any dedication . Human happiness has always its abate- ments ; the brightest fun - fhine of fuccess is not without a cloud . No fooner was Cato offered to the reader ...
... hand , and bis honour on the other , to fend it into the world without any dedication . Human happiness has always its abate- ments ; the brightest fun - fhine of fuccess is not without a cloud . No fooner was Cato offered to the reader ...
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... hand , which will perhaps lose somewhat of their praise when the author is known to be Jef- freys . Cato had yet other honours . It was cen fured as a party - play by a Scholar of Oxford , and defended in a favourable examination by Dr ...
... hand , which will perhaps lose somewhat of their praise when the author is known to be Jef- freys . Cato had yet other honours . It was cen fured as a party - play by a Scholar of Oxford , and defended in a favourable examination by Dr ...
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... hand ; whether it was , as Tickell pretends to think , that he was unwilling to ufurp the praise of others , or as ... hands , he only told him it was the work of a Gentleman in the Company ; mer ; and and when it was received , as is ...
... hand ; whether it was , as Tickell pretends to think , that he was unwilling to ufurp the praise of others , or as ... hands , he only told him it was the work of a Gentleman in the Company ; mer ; and and when it was received , as is ...
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... hands of Tickell . His works will supply fome information . It appears from his various pictures of the world , that , with all his bafhfulness , he had converfed with many diftinct claffes of men , had furveyed their ways with very ...
... hands of Tickell . His works will supply fome information . It appears from his various pictures of the world , that , with all his bafhfulness , he had converfed with many diftinct claffes of men , had furveyed their ways with very ...
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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