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... learning , with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect , with un- conquerable pertinacity , with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic , and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just ...
... learning , with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect , with un- conquerable pertinacity , with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic , and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just ...
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... learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them I have observed an affected contempt of the ancients , and a supercilious derision of transmitted knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from his ...
... learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them I have observed an affected contempt of the ancients , and a supercilious derision of transmitted knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from his ...
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Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Henry Morley. affirmed that learning must be joined with native genius to make a physician of the first rank ; but if those talents are separated , I asserted , and do still insist , that a ...
Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson Henry Morley. affirmed that learning must be joined with native genius to make a physician of the first rank ; but if those talents are separated , I asserted , and do still insist , that a ...
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... , as he desired nothing more than to read them , were by diligent application soon despatched . Of Italian learning 66 he does not appear to have ever made much C - 159 POPE . 65 that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of ...
... , as he desired nothing more than to read them , were by diligent application soon despatched . Of Italian learning 66 he does not appear to have ever made much C - 159 POPE . 65 that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of ...
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... learning and so much observation as that work exhibits . On this poem Dennis afterwards published some remarks , of which the most reasonable is that some of the lines represent motion as exhibited by sculpture . Of the Epistle from ...
... learning and so much observation as that work exhibits . On this poem Dennis afterwards published some remarks , of which the most reasonable is that some of the lines represent motion as exhibited by sculpture . Of the Epistle from ...
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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