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... contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness ; he has no careless lines , or entangled senti- ments ; his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If this part of his character suffers an abatement , it must be ...
... contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness ; he has no careless lines , or entangled senti- ments ; his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If this part of his character suffers an abatement , it must be ...
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... contempt , but he has the sword without the arm of Scanderbeg ; he has his antagonist's coarseness but not his strength . Collier replied , for contest was his delight . " He was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . " The ...
... contempt , but he has the sword without the arm of Scanderbeg ; he has his antagonist's coarseness but not his strength . Collier replied , for contest was his delight . " He was not to be frighted from his purpose or his prey . " The ...
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... contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment ; he and his critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis " as equal to Boileau in poetry , and superior to him in critical ...
... contemptuous as they were , raised in him no implacable resentment ; he and his critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis " as equal to Boileau in poetry , and superior to him in critical ...
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... contempt that , as Fenton observes , he put an end to that species of writers that gave advice to painters . Not long after ( 1712 ) he published “ Creation , ” a philo- sophical poem , which has been , by my recommendation , inserted ...
... contempt that , as Fenton observes , he put an end to that species of writers that gave advice to painters . Not long after ( 1712 ) he published “ Creation , ” a philo- sophical poem , which has been , by my recommendation , inserted ...
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... contempt of the world with sordid avarice ; and others . who preserve a great degree of piety with ill - nature and ungoverned passions . Nor are instances of this incon- sistent mixture less frequent among bad men , where we often with ...
... contempt of the world with sordid avarice ; and others . who preserve a great degree of piety with ill - nature and ungoverned passions . Nor are instances of this incon- sistent mixture less frequent among bad men , where we often with ...
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