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... called the Cabinet Council ; and next year gratified his malevolence to the clergy by a Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases , and the Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . Oliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
... called the Cabinet Council ; and next year gratified his malevolence to the clergy by a Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Cases , and the Means of removing Hirelings out of the Church . Oliver was now dead ; Richard was ...
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... called Absalom and Achitophel , written against the faction which , by Lord Salisbury's incitement , set the Duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of public principles , and in ...
... called Absalom and Achitophel , written against the faction which , by Lord Salisbury's incitement , set the Duke of Monmouth at its head . Of this poem , in which personal satire was applied to the support of public principles , and in ...
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... called the Prologue to the Satires , is a performance consisting , as it seems , of many fragments wrought into one design , which by this union of scattered beauties contains more striking paragraphs than could probably have been ...
... called the Prologue to the Satires , is a performance consisting , as it seems , of many fragments wrought into one design , which by this union of scattered beauties contains more striking paragraphs than could probably have been ...
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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