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Page 211
... means favour- able to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with anxiety , discord , and confusion ; and either the turbulence of the times , or the satiety of the readers , put a stop to the ...
... means favour- able to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with anxiety , discord , and confusion ; and either the turbulence of the times , or the satiety of the readers , put a stop to the ...
Page 329
... means inconsiderable , and greater than I believe to have been ever asked before . His proposal , however , was very favourably received ; and the patrons of literature were busy to recommend his undertaking and promote his interest ...
... means inconsiderable , and greater than I believe to have been ever asked before . His proposal , however , was very favourably received ; and the patrons of literature were busy to recommend his undertaking and promote his interest ...
Page 362
... means an original direction of desire to some particular object , an innate affection which gives all action a determinate and invariable tendency , and operates upon the whole system of life , either openly , or more secretly by the ...
... means an original direction of desire to some particular object , an innate affection which gives all action a determinate and invariable tendency , and operates upon the whole system of life , either openly , or more secretly by the ...
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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