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Samuel Johnson. and benefactors with levity and contempt , though in their cooler moments they want neither sense of ... contemptuous , insolent , petulant , selfish , and brutal . As Mr. Wilks was one of those to whom calamity ...
Samuel Johnson. and benefactors with levity and contempt , though in their cooler moments they want neither sense of ... contemptuous , insolent , petulant , selfish , and brutal . As Mr. Wilks was one of those to whom calamity ...
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... contempt which they had suffered ; and they who had received favours from him - for of such favours as he could bestow he was very liberal - did not always remember them . So much more certain are the effects of resentment than of ...
... contempt which they had suffered ; and they who had received favours from him - for of such favours as he could bestow he was very liberal - did not always remember them . So much more certain are the effects of resentment than of ...
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... contempt of the contracted views and narrow prospects of the middle state of life , and declares his resolution either to tower like the cedar , or be trampled like the shrub ; but in this poem , though addressed to a prince , he ...
... contempt of the contracted views and narrow prospects of the middle state of life , and declares his resolution either to tower like the cedar , or be trampled like the shrub ; but in this poem , though addressed to a prince , he ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
WILLIAM SOMERVILE 16921742 | 65 |
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