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... Addison , who appears to have known the Author either by conjecture or intelligence . The tories , who were now in power , were in haste to end the war ; and Prior , being recalled ( 1710 ) to his former em- ployment of making treaties ...
... Addison , who appears to have known the Author either by conjecture or intelligence . The tories , who were now in power , were in haste to end the war ; and Prior , being recalled ( 1710 ) to his former em- ployment of making treaties ...
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... Addison himself . This was surely said without consideration . Addison , exalted to a high place , was forced into degradation by the sense of his own incapacity ; Prior , who was employed by men very capable of estimating his value ...
... Addison himself . This was surely said without consideration . Addison , exalted to a high place , was forced into degradation by the sense of his own incapacity ; Prior , who was employed by men very capable of estimating his value ...
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... Addison ( Spec . 339. ) is too well known to be transcribed : but some notice is due to the testimony of Dennis , who calls it a " philosophical poem , which has equalled that of Lucretius in the beauty of its versification , and ...
... Addison ( Spec . 339. ) is too well known to be transcribed : but some notice is due to the testimony of Dennis , who calls it a " philosophical poem , which has equalled that of Lucretius in the beauty of its versification , and ...
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... Addison and Sacheverell , men who were in those times friends , and who both adopted Yalden to their intimacy . Yalden con- tinued , throughout his life , to think as probably he thought at first , yet did not forfeit the friendship of ...
... Addison and Sacheverell , men who were in those times friends , and who both adopted Yalden to their intimacy . Yalden con- tinued , throughout his life , to think as probably he thought at first , yet did not forfeit the friendship of ...
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... Addison , whose notice he is said to have gained by his verses in praise of " Rosamond . " To those verses it would not have been just to deny regard , for they contain some of the most elegant encomiastic strains ; and , among the ...
... Addison , whose notice he is said to have gained by his verses in praise of " Rosamond . " To those verses it would not have been just to deny regard , for they contain some of the most elegant encomiastic strains ; and , among the ...
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