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... formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ; for there judgment operates freely , neither softened by the beauty ...
... formed his style by a perverse and pedantic principle . He was desirous to use English words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ; for there judgment operates freely , neither softened by the beauty ...
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... formed to reason than to feel . The con- flagration of a city , with all its tumults of concomitant distress , is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can offer to human eyes ; yet it seems to raise little emotion in the ...
... formed to reason than to feel . The con- flagration of a city , with all its tumults of concomitant distress , is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can offer to human eyes ; yet it seems to raise little emotion in the ...
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... formed ; they exhibit a perpetual and unclouded effulgence of general benevolence and particular fondness . There is nothing but liberality , grati- tude , constancy , and tenderness . It has been so long said as to be commonly believed ...
... formed ; they exhibit a perpetual and unclouded effulgence of general benevolence and particular fondness . There is nothing but liberality , grati- tude , constancy , and tenderness . It has been so long said as to be commonly believed ...
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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