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... criticism , but passing his time among the great and splendid , in the placid enjoyment of his fame and fortune . Having owed his fortune to Halifax , he continued always of his patron's party , but , as it seems , without violence or ...
... criticism , but passing his time among the great and splendid , in the placid enjoyment of his fame and fortune . Having owed his fortune to Halifax , he continued always of his patron's party , but , as it seems , without violence or ...
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... criticism ; sometimes the thoughts are false , and sometimes common . In his verses on Lady Gethin , the latter part is in imitation of Dryden's Ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and Doris , that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , has ...
... criticism ; sometimes the thoughts are false , and sometimes common . In his verses on Lady Gethin , the latter part is in imitation of Dryden's Ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and Doris , that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , has ...
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... at a time when literary curiosity was yet confined to particular classes of the nation . Such success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than 32 BLACKMORE .
... at a time when literary curiosity was yet confined to particular classes of the nation . Such success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than 32 BLACKMORE .
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Samuel Johnson. by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than the work which he condemns . To this censure ... critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis as " equal to Boileau in poetry ...
Samuel Johnson. by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than the work which he condemns . To this censure ... critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis as " equal to Boileau in poetry ...
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... critic . The same year he published " A Satire on Wit ; " a procla- mation of defiance , which united the poets almost all against him , and which brought upon him lampoons and ridicule from every side . This he doubtless foresaw , and ...
... critic . The same year he published " A Satire on Wit ; " a procla- mation of defiance , which united the poets almost all against him , and which brought upon him lampoons and ridicule from every side . This he doubtless foresaw , and ...
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