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Page 217
... acquaintance with Swift . Of his habits , or external manners , nothing is so often men- tioned as that timorous or sullen taciturnity , which his friends called modesty by too mild a name . Steele mentions with great tenderness " that ...
... acquaintance with Swift . Of his habits , or external manners , nothing is so often men- tioned as that timorous or sullen taciturnity , which his friends called modesty by too mild a name . Steele mentions with great tenderness " that ...
Page 245
... acquaintance only , but to his confidence , of which he sometimes related an instance too extraordinary to be omitted , as it affords a very just idea of his patron's character . He was once desired by Sir Richard , with an air of the ...
... acquaintance only , but to his confidence , of which he sometimes related an instance too extraordinary to be omitted , as it affords a very just idea of his patron's character . He was once desired by Sir Richard , with an air of the ...
Page 293
... acquaintance than any man ever before attained , there being scarcely any person eminent on any account to whom he was not known , or whose character he was not in some degree able to delineate . To the acquisition of this extensive ...
... acquaintance than any man ever before attained , there being scarcely any person eminent on any account to whom he was not known , or whose character he was not in some degree able to delineate . To the acquisition of this extensive ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote