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... asked whether he would allow the printers to give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes of " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author . " Johnson replied , " Sir , Lord ...
... asked whether he would allow the printers to give all the verse of Prior . Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes of " those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author . " Johnson replied , " Sir , Lord ...
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... asked whether the King of England's palace had any such decorations : " The monuments of my master's actions , " said he , " are to be seen everywhere but in his own house . " The pictures of Le Brun are not only in themselves ...
... asked whether the King of England's palace had any such decorations : " The monuments of my master's actions , " said he , " are to be seen everywhere but in his own house . " The pictures of Le Brun are not only in themselves ...
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... men elated by recent authority . They are represented as asking questions sometimes vague , sometimes insidious , and writing answers different from those which they received . Prior , however , seems to have been 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... men elated by recent authority . They are represented as asking questions sometimes vague , sometimes insidious , and writing answers different from those which they received . Prior , however , seems to have been 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... asked Prior , with great earnestness , who was present when the preliminary articles were talked of or signed at his house ? He told them that either the Earl of Oxford or the Duke of Shrewsbury was absent , but he could not remember ...
... asked Prior , with great earnestness , who was present when the preliminary articles were talked of or signed at his house ? He told them that either the Earl of Oxford or the Duke of Shrewsbury was absent , but he could not remember ...
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... asked two questions ; whether the essay will succeed , and who or what is the author . Its success he admits to be secured by the false opinions then prevalent ; the author he concludes to be " young and raw . " 66 First , because he ...
... asked two questions ; whether the essay will succeed , and who or what is the author . Its success he admits to be secured by the false opinions then prevalent ; the author he concludes to be " young and raw . " 66 First , because he ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original passages performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation resentment ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey WILLIAM CONGREVE write written wrote