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Page 186
... excellence in his kind . One composition must however be distinguished . The Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , perhaps the ... excellence beyond it in some other of Dryden's works , that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on ...
... excellence in his kind . One composition must however be distinguished . The Ode for St. Cecilia's Day , perhaps the ... excellence beyond it in some other of Dryden's works , that excellence must be found . Compared with the Ode on ...
Page 362
... excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms . But to the particular species of excellence men are directed , not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour , but by the first ...
... excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms . But to the particular species of excellence men are directed , not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour , but by the first ...
Page 399
... excellence may be properly estimated , I recommend a com- parison of his Characters of Women with Boileau's Satire ; it will then be seen with how much more perspicacity female nature is investigated , and female excellence selected ...
... excellence may be properly estimated , I recommend a com- parison of his Characters of Women with Boileau's Satire ; it will then be seen with how much more perspicacity female nature is investigated , and female excellence selected ...
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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