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... Addison , Savage , and Swift Lives of Timoleon , Paulus Æmiliu , & c ... Wisdom of the Ancients Earlier Poems .. Confessio is of an Inquiring Spirit Francis Bacon Lives of Prior , Congreve , & c . * GILBERT WHITE . PLUTARCH , COVENTRY ...
... Addison , Savage , and Swift Lives of Timoleon , Paulus Æmiliu , & c ... Wisdom of the Ancients Earlier Poems .. Confessio is of an Inquiring Spirit Francis Bacon Lives of Prior , Congreve , & c . * GILBERT WHITE . PLUTARCH , COVENTRY ...
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... in the case of Blackmore the regard for the religious purpose of Blackmore's " The Creation " gave to Johnson , as to poem on Addison , an undue sense of its literary value , 2800 666 With his " Life of Pope , " which INTRODUCTION. ...
... in the case of Blackmore the regard for the religious purpose of Blackmore's " The Creation " gave to Johnson , as to poem on Addison , an undue sense of its literary value , 2800 666 With his " Life of Pope , " which INTRODUCTION. ...
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... Addison , who appears to have known the author either by conjecture or intelligence . The Tories , who were now in power , were in haste to end the war , and Prior , being recalled ( 1710 ) to his former employment of making treaties ...
... Addison , who appears to have known the author either by conjecture or intelligence . The Tories , who were now in power , were in haste to end the war , and Prior , being recalled ( 1710 ) to his former employment of making treaties ...
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... Addison him- self . This was surely said without consideration . Addison , exalted to a high place , was forced into degra- dation by the sense of his own incapacity ; Prior , who was employed by men very capable of estimating his value ...
... Addison him- self . This was surely said without consideration . Addison , exalted to a high place , was forced into degra- dation by the sense of his own incapacity ; Prior , who was employed by men very capable of estimating his value ...
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... Addison ( Spectator , 339 ) is too well known to be transcribed ; but some notice is due to the testimony of Dennis , who calls it a " philosophical poem , which has equalled that of ' Lucretius ' in the beauty of its versification ...
... Addison ( Spectator , 339 ) is too well known to be transcribed ; but some notice is due to the testimony of Dennis , who calls it a " philosophical poem , which has equalled that of ' Lucretius ' in the beauty of its versification ...
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