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... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with consciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
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... elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having " turned many to righteousness . " Addison , in his life , and for some time afterwards , was con- sidered by the greater part of ...
... elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having " turned many to righteousness . " Addison , in his life , and for some time afterwards , was con- sidered by the greater part of ...
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... elegance so much increased , that mere nature would be endured no longer ; and perhaps , in the multitude of borrowed passages , very few can be shown which he has not embellished . There is a time when nations emerging from barbarity ...
... elegance so much increased , that mere nature would be endured no longer ; and perhaps , in the multitude of borrowed passages , very few can be shown which he has not embellished . There is a time when nations emerging from barbarity ...
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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