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... reputation : it may be , therefore , reasonably supposed that his manners were polite and his conversation pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the " Spectator , " and only one ...
... reputation : it may be , therefore , reasonably supposed that his manners were polite and his conversation pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the " Spectator , " and only one ...
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... reputation of acute grammarians and commentators : men , who have been copying one another many hundred years , without any improvement ; or , if they have ventured farther , have only applied in a mechanical manner the rules of ancient ...
... reputation of acute grammarians and commentators : men , who have been copying one another many hundred years , without any improvement ; or , if they have ventured farther , have only applied in a mechanical manner the rules of ancient ...
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... reputation , extenuates their faults , and sets off their virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is himself ...
... reputation , extenuates their faults , and sets off their virtues , and by his candour guards them from the severity of his judgment . He is not like those dry critics who are morose because they cannot write themselves , but is himself ...
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... his place by " Eliza " in silence and darkness ; benevolence was ashamed to favour , and malice was weary of insulting . Of his four epic poems , the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the 40 BLACKMORE .
... his place by " Eliza " in silence and darkness ; benevolence was ashamed to favour , and malice was weary of insulting . Of his four epic poems , the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the 40 BLACKMORE .
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Samuel Johnson. such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the two last had neither friends nor enemies . Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part ...
Samuel Johnson. such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the two last had neither friends nor enemies . Contempt is a kind of gangrene , which , if it seizes one part ...
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