The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guess . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted left he should be thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated to ...
... virtues , was to fall before a tyrant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guess . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted left he should be thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated to ...
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... virtue it is a fufficient teftimony , that the refentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime . He was not one of those who are praised only after death ; for his me- rit was fo generally acknowledged , that Swift , having ...
... virtue it is a fufficient teftimony , that the refentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime . He was not one of those who are praised only after death ; for his me- rit was fo generally acknowledged , that Swift , having ...
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... virtue , do no more than praife it . Yet it is reasonable to believe , that Addifon's profeffions and prac- tice were at no great variance , fince , amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was paffed , though his station ...
... virtue , do no more than praife it . Yet it is reasonable to believe , that Addifon's profeffions and prac- tice were at no great variance , fince , amidst that storm of faction in which most of his life was paffed , though his station ...
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... virtue to its dignity , and taught innocence not to be afhamed . This is an elevation of literary cha- racter , above all Greek , above all Roman fame . No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual ...
... virtue to its dignity , and taught innocence not to be afhamed . This is an elevation of literary cha- racter , above all Greek , above all Roman fame . No greater felicity can genius attain than that of having purified intellectual ...
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... virtue rewarded , yet , fince wickedness often profpers in real life , the poet is certainly at liberty to give it prof- perity on the stage . For if poetry has an imitation of reality , how are its laws broken by exhibiting the world ...
... virtue rewarded , yet , fince wickedness often profpers in real life , the poet is certainly at liberty to give it prof- perity on the stage . For if poetry has an imitation of reality , how are its laws broken by exhibiting the world ...
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