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... virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces ...
... virtue , but the repression of wickedness , so judgment in the operations of intellect can hinder faults , but not produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces ...
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... virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular ; and , though ...
... virtue . Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the correction of a national error , and for the cure of our Pindaric madness . He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular ; and , though ...
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... virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such ...
... virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such ...
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... virtue restrains from deceiving others are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his whole ...
... virtue restrains from deceiving others are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the succession or not , he at least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his whole ...
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... virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for Wit . In this poem he ...
... virtue . Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear , he will erect a Bank for Wit . In this poem he ...
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