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... knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation , by a quick apprehension , a judicious selection , and a happy memory , a keen appetite of knowledge , and a powerful digestion ; by vigilance that ...
... knowledge of Dryden was gleaned from accidental intelligence and various conversation , by a quick apprehension , a judicious selection , and a happy memory , a keen appetite of knowledge , and a powerful digestion ; by vigilance that ...
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A Selection Samuel Johnson John Wain. be written from personal knowledge , which is growing every day less , and in a short time is lost ... knowledge , taught us how to die- in which he alludes , as he told Dr. Young 216 1672-1719 ADDISON.
A Selection Samuel Johnson John Wain. be written from personal knowledge , which is growing every day less , and in a short time is lost ... knowledge , taught us how to die- in which he alludes , as he told Dr. Young 216 1672-1719 ADDISON.
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... knowledge , the superiority must be allowed to Dryden , whose education was more scholastic , and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study , with better means of information . His mind has a larger range , and ...
... knowledge , the superiority must be allowed to Dryden , whose education was more scholastic , and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study , with better means of information . His mind has a larger range , and ...
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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