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Page 108
... pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire harassed and overburdened , and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions . Another inconvenience of Milton's design is , that it requires the ...
... pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire harassed and overburdened , and look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master and seek for companions . Another inconvenience of Milton's design is , that it requires the ...
Page 121
... pleasure is variety . Uniformity must tire at last , though it be uniformity of excellence . We love to expect ; and when expectation is disappointed or gratified , we want to be again expecting . For this impatience of the present ...
... pleasure is variety . Uniformity must tire at last , though it be uniformity of excellence . We love to expect ; and when expectation is disappointed or gratified , we want to be again expecting . For this impatience of the present ...
Page 219
... pleasure , or the flatterers of vanity . Dryden has never been charged with any personal agency unworthy of a good character : he abetted vice and vanity only with his pen . One of his enemies has accused him of lewdness in his ...
... pleasure , or the flatterers of vanity . Dryden has never been charged with any personal agency unworthy of a good character : he abetted vice and vanity only with his pen . One of his enemies has accused him of lewdness in his ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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