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... reason less diligent in perusing books . His literature was , I think , but small . What he knew of antiquity , I ... reason in verse is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons ...
... reason less diligent in perusing books . His literature was , I think , but small . What he knew of antiquity , I ... reason in verse is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons ...
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... reason , would for bad reasons promote the exaltation of a villain . The clergy were universally provoked by this satire ; and Savage , who , as was his constant practice , had set his name to his performance , was censured in " The ...
... reason , would for bad reasons promote the exaltation of a villain . The clergy were universally provoked by this satire ; and Savage , who , as was his constant practice , had set his name to his performance , was censured in " The ...
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... reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is , is right ; but having afterwards discovered , or been shewn , that the " truth , " which subsisted " in spite of reason " could not be very " clear , " he substituted And spite of ...
... reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is , is right ; but having afterwards discovered , or been shewn , that the " truth , " which subsisted " in spite of reason " could not be very " clear , " he substituted And spite of ...
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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