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... wrote so much , and praised so few . Of his praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain pre- servative from oblivion . At Florence ...
... wrote so much , and praised so few . Of his praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain pre- servative from oblivion . At Florence ...
Page 234
... wrote to Pope ; and 1711 , when Pope praised him in his Essay . The epitaph makes him forty - six years old : if Wood's account be right , he died in 1709 . He is known more by his familiarity with greater men , than by anything done or ...
... wrote to Pope ; and 1711 , when Pope praised him in his Essay . The epitaph makes him forty - six years old : if Wood's account be right , he died in 1709 . He is known more by his familiarity with greater men , than by anything done or ...
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... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight ...
... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight ...
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