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Page 47
... affects to fear he will erect a " Bank for Wit . " In this poem he justly censured Dryden's impurities , but praised his powers , though in a subsequent edition he retained the satire , and omitted the praise . What was his reason , I ...
... affects to fear he will erect a " Bank for Wit . " In this poem he justly censured Dryden's impurities , but praised his powers , though in a subsequent edition he retained the satire , and omitted the praise . What was his reason , I ...
Page 56
... affected contempt of the ancients , and a supercilious derision of transmitted knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from his preface to the " Treatise on the Small - pox " will afford a specimen , in which ...
... affected contempt of the ancients , and a supercilious derision of transmitted knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from his preface to the " Treatise on the Small - pox " will afford a specimen , in which ...
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... affected hypocrite , who had nothing in his mouth at the same time but truth , candour , friendship , good - nature , human- ity , and magnanimity . " How the attack was clandestine is not easily perceived , nor how his person is ...
... affected hypocrite , who had nothing in his mouth at the same time but truth , candour , friendship , good - nature , human- ity , and magnanimity . " How the attack was clandestine is not easily perceived , nor how his person is ...
Page 70
... affects the dictatorian air , he plainly shows that at the same time he is under the rod and , while he pretends to give laws to others , is a pedantic slave to authority and opinion . Thirdly , he hath , like school- boys , borrowed ...
... affects the dictatorian air , he plainly shows that at the same time he is under the rod and , while he pretends to give laws to others , is a pedantic slave to authority and opinion . Thirdly , he hath , like school- boys , borrowed ...
Page 96
... On this occasion , if the reports be true , Pope made his complaint with frankness anu spirit , as a man undeservedly neglected or opposed ; and Addison affected a contemptuous unconcern , and in a calm 96 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... On this occasion , if the reports be true , Pope made his complaint with frankness anu spirit , as a man undeservedly neglected or opposed ; and Addison affected a contemptuous unconcern , and in a calm 96 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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