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... reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire harassed and overburdened , and look elsewhere ...
... reader admires and lays down , and forgets to take up again . None ever wished it longer than it is . Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure . We read Milton for instruction , retire harassed and overburdened , and look elsewhere ...
Page 231
... reader if I have not been as good as my word . Did I not tell him that I would lay before him a very wise scene ? " - p . 50 . " But now let us lay before the reader that part of the scenery of the fourth act , which may show the ...
... reader if I have not been as good as my word . Did I not tell him that I would lay before him a very wise scene ? " - p . 50 . " But now let us lay before the reader that part of the scenery of the fourth act , which may show the ...
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... readers of the English Iliad , when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty of the lighter kind , have tried to ... reader by the pleasure of perusal have not often appeared ; the notes of others are read to clear difficulties ...
... readers of the English Iliad , when they have been touched with some unexpected beauty of the lighter kind , have tried to ... reader by the pleasure of perusal have not often appeared ; the notes of others are read to clear difficulties ...
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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