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... easily escape a manner — such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
... easily escape a manner — such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted . Dryden is always another and the same ; he does not exhibit a second time the same elegances in the same form , nor appears to have any art other ...
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... easily to be avoided by a great mind , irritated by perpetual hardships , and constrained hourly to return the spurns of contempt , and re- press the insolence of prosperity ; and vanity surely may be readily pardoned in him to whom ...
... easily to be avoided by a great mind , irritated by perpetual hardships , and constrained hourly to return the spurns of contempt , and re- press the insolence of prosperity ; and vanity surely may be readily pardoned in him to whom ...
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... easily excused . Pope , in one of his letters , complaining of the treatment which his poem had found , " owns that such critics can intimidate him , nay , almost per- suade him to write no more , which is a compliment this age deserves ...
... easily excused . Pope , in one of his letters , complaining of the treatment which his poem had found , " owns that such critics can intimidate him , nay , almost per- suade him to write no more , which is a compliment this age deserves ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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