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... hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : - Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul et Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H.S.E. Vir Eximius Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginæque ...
... hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : - Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul et Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H.S.E. Vir Eximius Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginæque ...
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... hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry ...
... hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry ...
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... hundred pounds a year . His honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect , and among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his " Miscellany , " and Pope inscribed to ...
... hundred pounds a year . His honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect , and among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his " Miscellany , " and Pope inscribed to ...
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... hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a performance perfection cannot be expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his ...
... hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a performance perfection cannot be expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his ...
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... hundred years without any improvement , or , if they have ventured farther , have only applied in a me- chanical manner the rules of ancient critics to modern writings , and with great labour discovered nothing but their own want of ...
... hundred years without any improvement , or , if they have ventured farther , have only applied in a me- chanical manner the rules of ancient critics to modern writings , and with great labour discovered nothing but their own want of ...
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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