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Page 129
... less time than The Royal Martyr ; though the author thought not fit , either ostentatiously or mournfully , to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how short a warning he produced it . It was a temporary perform- ance , written in ...
... less time than The Royal Martyr ; though the author thought not fit , either ostentatiously or mournfully , to tell how little labour it cost him , or at how short a warning he produced it . It was a temporary perform- ance , written in ...
Page 266
... less if less had been offered him . This poem was addressed to the Lord Tyrconnel , not only in the first lines , but in a formal Dedication filled with the highest strains of panegyric , and the warmest professions of gratitude , but ...
... less if less had been offered him . This poem was addressed to the Lord Tyrconnel , not only in the first lines , but in a formal Dedication filled with the highest strains of panegyric , and the warmest professions of gratitude , but ...
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... less melancholy , was less affecting because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends , and those that had formerly relieved him thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise considered by ...
... less melancholy , was less affecting because it was no longer new ; it therefore procured him no new friends , and those that had formerly relieved him thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise considered by ...
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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