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Page 18
... discovered wide , Fled to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd . But that fair crew of knights , and Una fair , Did in that castle afterwards abide , To ...
... discovered wide , Fled to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd . But that fair crew of knights , and Una fair , Did in that castle afterwards abide , To ...
Page 34
... 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 justly censured Dryden's ...
... 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 justly censured Dryden's ...
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... , and with great labour discovered nothing but their own want of judgment and capacity . As Mr. Johnson penetrates to the bottom of his subject , by which means his observations are solid and natural , as well 36 BLACKMORE .
... , and with great labour discovered nothing but their own want of judgment and capacity . As Mr. Johnson penetrates to the bottom of his subject , by which means his observations are solid and natural , as well 36 BLACKMORE .
Page 43
... discovered to have disturbed his quiet or to have lessened his confidence in himself ; they neither awed him to silence nor to caution ; they neither provoked him to petulance nor depressed hin to complaint . While the distributors of ...
... discovered to have disturbed his quiet or to have lessened his confidence in himself ; they neither awed him to silence nor to caution ; they neither provoked him to petulance nor depressed hin to complaint . While the distributors of ...
Page 56
... discovering the taste of the public . He was quite right in this as usual ; the good - nature of the audience appeared stronger and stronger every act , and ended in a clamour of applause . " Its reception is thus recorded in the notes ...
... discovering the taste of the public . He was quite right in this as usual ; the good - nature of the audience appeared stronger and stronger every act , and ended in a clamour of applause . " Its reception is thus recorded in the notes ...
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