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... produced it . Not long afterwards [ 18th June , 1714 ] an attempt was made to revive The Spectator , at a time indeed by no means favour- able to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with ...
... produced it . Not long afterwards [ 18th June , 1714 ] an attempt was made to revive The Spectator , at a time indeed by no means favour- able to literature , when the succession of a new family to the throne filled the nation with ...
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... produced this piece at twenty , and never afterwards excelled it : he that delights himself with observing that such powers may be soon attained , cannot but grieve to think that life was ever after at a stand . To mention the ...
... produced this piece at twenty , and never afterwards excelled it : he that delights himself with observing that such powers may be soon attained , cannot but grieve to think that life was ever after at a stand . To mention the ...
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... produced in France , that the improbability of such a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous protestation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily ...
... produced in France , that the improbability of such a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous protestation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily ...
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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