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Page 259
... endeavoured to soothe them by sympathy and tenderness . But when his heart was not softened by the sight of misery , he was sometimes obstinate in his resentment , and did not quickly lose the remembrance of an injury . He always ...
... endeavoured to soothe them by sympathy and tenderness . But when his heart was not softened by the sight of misery , he was sometimes obstinate in his resentment , and did not quickly lose the remembrance of an injury . He always ...
Page 345
... endeavoured to depreciate his abilities . Burnet , who was afterwards a judge of no mean reputation , censured him in a piece called Homerides before it was published . Ducket likewise endeavoured to make him ridiculous . Dennis was the ...
... endeavoured to depreciate his abilities . Burnet , who was afterwards a judge of no mean reputation , censured him in a piece called Homerides before it was published . Ducket likewise endeavoured to make him ridiculous . Dennis was the ...
Page 362
... endeavoured , it must be shown to be possible . This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the Pope , and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription on the ...
... endeavoured , it must be shown to be possible . This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the Pope , and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription on the ...
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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