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... person should be admitted to see him without leave from the Speaker . " When , two years after , an Act of Grace was passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his " Alma . " He ...
... person should be admitted to see him without leave from the Speaker . " When , two years after , an Act of Grace was passed , he was excepted , and continued still in custody , which he had made less tedious by writing his " Alma . " He ...
Page 49
... persons were con- cealed under fictitious names is not known . The hero of the club is one Mr. Johnson , such a constellation of excellence , that his character shall not be suppressed , though there is no great genius in the design nor ...
... persons were con- cealed under fictitious names is not known . The hero of the club is one Mr. Johnson , such a constellation of excellence , that his character shall not be suppressed , though there is no great genius in the design nor ...
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... person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but diversified by various specific cha- racters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and allayed by different proportions of phlegm , or reduced and regulated by the contrast of ...
... person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but diversified by various specific cha- racters and limitations , as its active fire is blended and allayed by different proportions of phlegm , or reduced and regulated by the contrast of ...
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... persons of great figure , and of all denomi- nations . Violent party - men , who differed in all things be- sides , agreed in their turn to show particular respect and friendship to this insolent derider of the worship of his country ...
... persons of great figure , and of all denomi- nations . Violent party - men , who differed in all things be- sides , agreed in their turn to show particular respect and friendship to this insolent derider of the worship of his country ...
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... persons at once generous and unjust , impious lovers of their country , and flagitious heroes , good - natured sharpers , immoral men of honour , and libertines who will sooner die than change their re- ligion ; and though it is true ...
... persons at once generous and unjust , impious lovers of their country , and flagitious heroes , good - natured sharpers , immoral men of honour , and libertines who will sooner die than change their re- ligion ; and though it is true ...
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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