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Page 162
... 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 ...
Page 174
... easily selected and retained . Thus the description of Night in the Indian Emperor , and the rise and fall of empire in the Conquest of Granada , are more frequently repeated than any lines in All for Love , or Don Sebastian . To search ...
... easily selected and retained . Thus the description of Night in the Indian Emperor , and the rise and fall of empire in the Conquest of Granada , are more frequently repeated than any lines in All for Love , or Don Sebastian . To search ...
Page 236
... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; inquiry was awakened , and comprehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from this time to our own , life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; inquiry was awakened , and comprehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from this time to our own , life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
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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