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... DER 329 • GARTH 149 SHENSTONE 330 ROWE · 151 YOUNG 334 · • ADDISON · 155 MALLET 345 • HUGHES SHEFFIELD PRIOR · · 175 AKENSIDE · 353 · 177 GRAY · • 355 · 179 LYTTELTON · 360 cal compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and.
... DER 329 • GARTH 149 SHENSTONE 330 ROWE · 151 YOUNG 334 · • ADDISON · 155 MALLET 345 • HUGHES SHEFFIELD PRIOR · · 175 AKENSIDE · 353 · 177 GRAY · • 355 · 179 LYTTELTON · 360 cal compositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and.
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... young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work , of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vi- gour and activity . Two years after his settlement ...
... young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work , of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vi- gour and activity . Two years after his settlement ...
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... Young as thou wert to dangers , raw to war . O curs'd essay of arms , disastrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come ! Hard elements of unauspicious war , Vain vows to Heaven , and unavailing care ! DRYDEN . Hoffman , in ...
... Young as thou wert to dangers , raw to war . O curs'd essay of arms , disastrous doom , Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come ! Hard elements of unauspicious war , Vain vows to Heaven , and unavailing care ! DRYDEN . Hoffman , in ...
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... ( young virgin ) but few suitors knew ; The common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of ...
... ( young virgin ) but few suitors knew ; The common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press ; Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of ...
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... young man , given more to dice and cards than study : " and there- fore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the litera- ture of his country ...
... young man , given more to dice and cards than study : " and there- fore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the litera- ture of his country ...
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Addison Æneid afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censure character Charles Dryden composition considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence Dorset 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