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Page 4
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
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... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work ...
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recommend the perusal of his work ...
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... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collect- ed instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminent- ly distinguished . As ...
... easily understood without examples ; and I have therefore collect- ed instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminent- ly distinguished . As ...
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... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shows more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
... easily be found of greater excellence than that in which Cowley condemns exuberance of wit : Yet ' tis not to adorn and gild each part , That shows more cost than art . Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit ...
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... easily surmounted , that a writer , professing to revive the noblest and highest , writing in verse , makes this address to the new year : Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , Let not so much as love be there , Vain fruitless love I ...
... easily surmounted , that a writer , professing to revive the noblest and highest , writing in verse , makes this address to the new year : Nay , if thou lov'st me , gentle year , Let not so much as love be there , Vain fruitless love I ...
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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