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Page 195
... letter of July 26th , your style , that you are both in health ; but wonder you should think me so negligent as to forget to give you an account of the ship in which your parcel is to come . I have written to you two or three letters ...
... letter of July 26th , your style , that you are both in health ; but wonder you should think me so negligent as to forget to give you an account of the ship in which your parcel is to come . I have written to you two or three letters ...
Page 306
... letter declares his resolution to publish a pamphlet , that the world might know how " he had been used . " This pamphlet was never written ; for he in a very short time recovered his usual tranquillity , and cheerfully applied himself ...
... letter declares his resolution to publish a pamphlet , that the world might know how " he had been used . " This pamphlet was never written ; for he in a very short time recovered his usual tranquillity , and cheerfully applied himself ...
Page 378
... letter is a calm and deliberate performance , in the cool of leisure , in the stillness of solitude , and surely no man sits down to depreciate by design his own character . Friendship has no tendency to secure veracity ; for by whom ...
... letter is a calm and deliberate performance , in the cool of leisure , in the stillness of solitude , and surely no man sits down to depreciate by design his own character . Friendship has no tendency to secure veracity ; for by whom ...
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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