Lives of The English Poets Volume I1961 |
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... satire , exceeds any part of the former . Personal resentment , though no laudable motive to satire , can add great force to general principles . Self - love is a busy prompter . The Medal , written upon the same principles with Absalom ...
... satire , exceeds any part of the former . Personal resentment , though no laudable motive to satire , can add great force to general principles . Self - love is a busy prompter . The Medal , written upon the same principles with Absalom ...
Page 317
... satire . It is therefore perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was ...
... satire . It is therefore perhaps possible to give a better representation of that great satirist , even in those parts which Dryden himself has translated , some passages excepted , which will never be excelled . With Juvenal was ...
Page 412
... satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap , to shew that the satire was unfelt . The story of Bolingbroke is well known . He called Booth to his box , and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of Liberty so well ...
... satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap , to shew that the satire was unfelt . The story of Bolingbroke is well known . He called Booth to his box , and gave him fifty guineas for defending the cause of Liberty so well ...
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