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Page 54
... tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of his horse . Every man that has ever undertaken to instruct others , can tell ...
... tell or receive these stories should consider that nobody can be taught faster than he can learn . The speed of the horseman must be limited by the power of his horse . Every man that has ever undertaken to instruct others , can tell ...
Page 408
... tell of him who was sincere , true , and faithful , that he was in honour clear . There seems to be an opposition intended in the fourth line , which is not very obvious : where is the relation between the two positions that he gained ...
... tell of him who was sincere , true , and faithful , that he was in honour clear . There seems to be an opposition intended in the fourth line , which is not very obvious : where is the relation between the two positions that he gained ...
Page 467
... tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball , is useless and puerile . Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself . His epithet " buxom health " is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word . Gray thought his ...
... tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball , is useless and puerile . Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself . His epithet " buxom health " is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word . Gray thought his ...
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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