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... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . $ Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . $ Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
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... elegant in his per- son ; in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His pas- sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally ...
... elegant in his per- son ; in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His pas- sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally ...
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... elegance , and had the honour of being liberally praised by Addison in the thirty - ninth number of The Lover . Having adopted the Whig principles of his friend , the path of political promotion was soon laid open to his view by the ...
... elegance , and had the honour of being liberally praised by Addison in the thirty - ninth number of The Lover . Having adopted the Whig principles of his friend , the path of political promotion was soon laid open to his view by the ...
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... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
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... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom- mend it . . His poems on the ...
... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom- mend it . . His poems on the ...
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