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Page 36
... delight . If the continuation of the Davideis can be missed , it is for the learning that had been diffused over it , and the notes in which it had been explained . Had not his characters been depraved , like every other part , by ...
... delight . If the continuation of the Davideis can be missed , it is for the learning that had been diffused over it , and the notes in which it had been explained . Had not his characters been depraved , like every other part , by ...
Page 188
... delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment , in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit . He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning , where light and darkness begin to mingle ; to approach the precipice of absurdity ...
... delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment , in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit . He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning , where light and darkness begin to mingle ; to approach the precipice of absurdity ...
Page 450
... delight in carousing with Lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her Ladyship's poetical operations , and therefore never received another summons . Autumn , the season to which the Spring and Summer are preparatory , still ...
... delight in carousing with Lord Hertford and his friends than assisting her Ladyship's poetical operations , and therefore never received another summons . Autumn , the season to which the Spring and Summer are preparatory , still ...
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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