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Page 137
... person ought to prosecute that revenge from which the person who was injured desisted , I shall not preserve what Mr. Savage suppressed ; of which the publication would indeed have been a punishment too severe for so impotent an assault ...
... person ought to prosecute that revenge from which the person who was injured desisted , I shall not preserve what Mr. Savage suppressed ; of which the publication would indeed have been a punishment too severe for so impotent an assault ...
Page 203
... person that wants this wit may indeed be scorned , but the scorn shews the honour which the contemner has for wit . " Of this remark Pope made the proper use , by correct- ing the passage . I have preserved , I think , all that is ...
... person that wants this wit may indeed be scorned , but the scorn shews the honour which the contemner has for wit . " Of this remark Pope made the proper use , by correct- ing the passage . I have preserved , I think , all that is ...
Page 364
... person with whom Young was known to be connected or acquainted , while all the circumstances relating to Narcissa ... persons particularly lamented ; none that has read " The Night Thoughts " ( and who has not read them ? ) needs to be ...
... person with whom Young was known to be connected or acquainted , while all the circumstances relating to Narcissa ... persons particularly lamented ; none that has read " The Night Thoughts " ( and who has not read them ? ) needs to be ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber contempt conversation criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination Johnson's Lives kind King known labour Lady learning letter lines Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Landsdowne Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed occasion once opinion Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published Queen racter reader reason received reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue whigs write written wrote Young