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... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of pro- tection ; but this , which , when he skulked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner ...
... common duty of living in quiet , to be rewarded with the common right of pro- tection ; but this , which , when he skulked from the approach of his King , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for no sooner ...
Page 393
... common incidents of common life ; nothing real is introduced that is not seen so often as to be no longer regarded ; yet the whole detail of a female - day is here brought before us , invested with so much art of decoration , that ...
... common incidents of common life ; nothing real is introduced that is not seen so often as to be no longer regarded ; yet the whole detail of a female - day is here brought before us , invested with so much art of decoration , that ...
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... common use : finding in Dryden " honey redolent of Spring , " an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension by making " gales " to be " redolent of joy and youth ...
... common use : finding in Dryden " honey redolent of Spring , " an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension by making " gales " to be " redolent of joy and youth ...
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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