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... mention made of him by St. John in his letter to the queen : - " My Lord Treasurer moved , and all my Lords were of the same opinion , that Mr. Prior should be added to those who are empowered to sign ; the reason for which is because ...
... mention made of him by St. John in his letter to the queen : - " My Lord Treasurer moved , and all my Lords were of the same opinion , that Mr. Prior should be added to those who are empowered to sign ; the reason for which is because ...
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... mention of Mars and Bellona , and his comparison of Marlborough to the eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter , are all puerile and unaffecting ; and yet more despicable is the long tale told by Louis in his despair of Brute and ...
... mention of Mars and Bellona , and his comparison of Marlborough to the eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter , are all puerile and unaffecting ; and yet more despicable is the long tale told by Louis in his despair of Brute and ...
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... mention of any other agent , unless it be Abra ; the reader is only to learn what he thought , and to be told that he thought wrong . The event of every experiment is foreseen , and therefore the process is not much re- garded . Yet the ...
... mention of any other agent , unless it be Abra ; the reader is only to learn what he thought , and to be told that he thought wrong . The event of every experiment is foreseen , and therefore the process is not much re- garded . Yet the ...
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... mentioned him with respect , and among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his " Miscellany , " and Pope inscribed to him his translation of the " Iliad . " But he treated the muses with ingratitude ; for ...
... mentioned him with respect , and among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his " Miscellany , " and Pope inscribed to him his translation of the " Iliad . " But he treated the muses with ingratitude ; for ...
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... mentioned , he bequeathed a legacy of about ten thousand pounds , the accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , though to her superfluous and useless , might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended ...
... mentioned , he bequeathed a legacy of about ten thousand pounds , the accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , though to her superfluous and useless , might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended ...
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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