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... formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ; for there judgment operates freely , neither softened by the beauty ...
... formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ; for there judgment operates freely , neither softened by the beauty ...
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... formed the plan of a society for refining our language and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which he had been acquainted abroad . In this design his friend Dryden is said to ...
... formed the plan of a society for refining our language and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which he had been acquainted abroad . In this design his friend Dryden is said to ...
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... formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He considered the epic as necessarily including some kind of supernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels of ...
... formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince . He considered the epic as necessarily including some kind of supernatural agency , and had imagined a new kind of contest between the guardian angels of ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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