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... pleasure which he must have felt in for ever silencing all attempts to lessen his poetical fame . remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of ...
... pleasure which he must have felt in for ever silencing all attempts to lessen his poetical fame . remember once to have heard Johnson say , ' Sir , a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of ...
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... pleasure of fret- ting Dryden , for they were both speedily preferred . Montague , indeed , obtained the first notice with some degree of discontent , as it seems , in Prior , who probably knew that his own part of the performance was ...
... pleasure of fret- ting Dryden , for they were both speedily preferred . Montague , indeed , obtained the first notice with some degree of discontent , as it seems , in Prior , who probably knew that his own part of the performance was ...
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... pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work ...
... pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should control his desire of immediate renown , and keep his work ...
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... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel called " Incognita ; or , Love and Duty Reconciled ; " it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is , indeed , for such a time of life ...
... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel called " Incognita ; or , Love and Duty Reconciled ; " it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is , indeed , for such a time of life ...
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... pleasure in alliance with vice , and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated . The stage found other advocates , and the dispute was protracted through ten years : but at last comedy grew more modest , and Collier ...
... pleasure in alliance with vice , and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be regulated . The stage found other advocates , and the dispute was protracted through ten years : but at last comedy grew more modest , and Collier ...
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