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... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
... learning , and to show their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than ...
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... learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and , in the female world , any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured . His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity by gentle and unsuspected convey- ance into the gay ...
... learning were not ashamed of ignorance ; and , in the female world , any acquaintance with books was distinguished only to be censured . His purpose was to infuse literary curiosity by gentle and unsuspected convey- ance into the gay ...
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... learning , were very laudably industrious to enrich their own language with the wisdom of the ancients ; but found themselves reduced , by whatever necessity , to turn the Greek and Roman poetry into prose . Whoever could read an author ...
... learning , were very laudably industrious to enrich their own language with the wisdom of the ancients ; but found themselves reduced , by whatever necessity , to turn the Greek and Roman poetry into prose . Whoever could read an author ...
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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