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... present ECONOMICAL and UNIFORM Series Jones's British Classic Authors . The Works of the best English Authors are now publishing in a mode suitable to , n that places them within the reach of every class of society ; and the great ...
... present ECONOMICAL and UNIFORM Series Jones's British Classic Authors . The Works of the best English Authors are now publishing in a mode suitable to , n that places them within the reach of every class of society ; and the great ...
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... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was goon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was goon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
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... present day , he has given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , repre- sentation , having retained their sprightliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some ...
... present day , he has given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , repre- sentation , having retained their sprightliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some ...
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... present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of gay , but which time has been ...
... present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of gay , but which time has been ...
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... present age , when devotion , per- haps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having produced one passage taken by Cow- ley from Donne , I will recompense him by an- other which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah ...
... present age , when devotion , per- haps not more fervent , is more delicate . Having produced one passage taken by Cow- ley from Donne , I will recompense him by an- other which Milton seems to have borrowed from him . He says of Goliah ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dryden Duke Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence faults favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras Iliad images imagination imitation kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Halifax ment mentioned Milton mind nature never night Night Thoughts nihil numbers observed occasion once opinion panegyric Paradise Lost passage passion performance perhaps Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise published Queen racter reader reason received remarks reputation rhyme satire Savage says seems sent sentiments sometimes supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thing thought tion told tragedy translation verses Virgil virtue Waller whigs write written wrote Young