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... praise of the countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same year he published " The City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ...
... praise of the countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same year he published " The City Mouse and Country Mouse , " to ...
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... praise was not confined to the English language , but fills a great part of the Musa Anglicanæ . Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was ...
... praise was not confined to the English language , but fills a great part of the Musa Anglicanæ . Prior , who was both a poet and a courtier , was too diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was ...
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... praise , which reason would not refuse . Among the advantages to arise from the future years of William's reign , he mentions a Society for Useful Arts , and among them : -- " Some that with care true eloquence shall teach , And to just ...
... praise , which reason would not refuse . Among the advantages to arise from the future years of William's reign , he mentions a Society for Useful Arts , and among them : -- " Some that with care true eloquence shall teach , And to just ...
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... praise or censure it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 73 LIVES OF ...
... praise or censure it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 73 LIVES OF ...
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... praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass of comprehension or activity of fancy . He never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tissues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which ...
... praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass of comprehension or activity of fancy . He never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tissues of common thoughts ; and his smaller , which ...
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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