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Page 145
... favour , nor of the Lord Halifax's generous design ( these two noble spirits having , out of respect to the family , en- joined Lady Elizabeth and her son to keep their favour concealed to the world , and let it pass for her own expense ...
... favour , nor of the Lord Halifax's generous design ( these two noble spirits having , out of respect to the family , en- joined Lady Elizabeth and her son to keep their favour concealed to the world , and let it pass for her own expense ...
Page 259
... favours and uncertain patronage afforded him ; sources by which he was sometimes very liberally supplied , and which at other ... favour him at one time as another , he was tempted to squander what he had , because he always hoped to be ...
... favours and uncertain patronage afforded him ; sources by which he was sometimes very liberally supplied , and which at other ... favour him at one time as another , he was tempted to squander what he had , because he always hoped to be ...
Page 340
... favour and some overtures of advantage to Pope , which he seems to have received with sullen coldness . All our ... favours you have done me , and for those you intend me . I distrust neither your will nor your memory when it is to do ...
... favour and some overtures of advantage to Pope , which he seems to have received with sullen coldness . All our ... favours you have done me , and for those you intend me . I distrust neither your will nor your memory when it is to do ...
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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