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... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and consequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
... reason to suspect that his father was a sectary . Whoever he was , he died before the birth of his son , and consequently left him to the care of his mother ; whom Wood represents as struggling earnestly to procure him a literary ...
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... reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice ; but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a This is no favourable representation , yet even in this ...
... reason for supposing that he ever attempted practice ; but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a This is no favourable representation , yet even in this ...
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... reasons that made him to follow the violent pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ... reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the ...
... reasons that made him to follow the violent pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his ... reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the ...
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... reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations , of confused magni- ficence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . noon . be retrieved , or something new is to be exam- ined . If their greatness ...
... reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations , of confused magni- ficence , that not only could not be credited , but could not be imagined . noon . be retrieved , or something new is to be exam- ined . If their greatness ...
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... Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge pro- Men doubt , because they ... reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revela ...
... Reason , are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge pro- Men doubt , because they ... reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not of things revealed , but of the reality of revela ...
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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