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... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reci- procal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in ...
... reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reci- procal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has in ...
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... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophi- cally ...
... reader , far from wondering that he missed them , wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found . But wit , abstracted from its effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophi- cally ...
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... reader may perhaps cry out- " Confusion worse con- founded : " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but ...
... reader may perhaps cry out- " Confusion worse con- founded : " Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another nothing owe . DONNE . Who but ...
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... readers , and perhaps , if they would honestly declare their own perceptions , to far the greater part of those whom ... reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , consi . dered as the verses of a lover , no man that ha ...
... readers , and perhaps , if they would honestly declare their own perceptions , to far the greater part of those whom ... reader is commonly surprised into some improvement . But , consi . dered as the verses of a lover , no man that ha ...
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... reader of less skill seem thrown to- gether by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English Ode cannot be called a translation , it may be very properly con- sulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is ...
... reader of less skill seem thrown to- gether by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English Ode cannot be called a translation , it may be very properly con- sulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is ...
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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