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... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
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... present , but hardly appropriated . The Ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contra- distinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
... present , but hardly appropriated . The Ode on Wit is almost without a rival . It was about the time of Cowley that wit , which had been till then used for intellection , in contra- distinction to will , took the meaning , whatever it ...
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... present day , he has given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , repre- sentation , having retained their sprightliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some ...
... present day , he has given rather a pleasing , than a faithful , repre- sentation , having retained their sprightliness , but lost their simplicity . The Anacreon of Cowley , like the Homer of Pope , has admitted the decoration of some ...
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... present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was ...
... present praise ; and , not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was ...
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... presents itself to the intellectual eye : and ill - read , the art of reading them is at present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern cars . He has indeed many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce ...
... presents itself to the intellectual eye : and ill - read , the art of reading them is at present lost ; for they are commonly harsh to modern cars . He has indeed many noble lines , such as the feeble care of Waller never could produce ...
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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