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... equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate to the magnifi- cence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior , in this splendid initiation into 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... equal , was formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate to the magnifi- cence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior , in this splendid initiation into 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... produced a subject for all the writers — perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man dis- countenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute ...
... produced a subject for all the writers — perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man dis- countenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of verses omitted to bring his tribute ...
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... produced one of his longest and most splendid compositions , the " Carmen Seculare , " in which he exhausts all his powers of celebration . I mean not to accuse him of flattery ; he probably thought all that he writ , and retained as ...
... produced one of his longest and most splendid compositions , the " Carmen Seculare , " in which he exhausts all his powers of celebration . I mean not to accuse him of flattery ; he probably thought all that he writ , and retained as ...
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... produced by that event which is now remembered . Everything has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no prosperous event passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every ...
... produced by that event which is now remembered . Everything has its day . Through the reigns of William and Anne no prosperous event passed undignified by poetry . In the last war , when France was disgraced and overpowered in every ...
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... produce of the sense in which the general preliminary engagements are entered into ; besides which , as he is the best versed in matters of trade of all your Majesty's servants who have been trusted in this secret , if you shall think ...
... produce of the sense in which the general preliminary engagements are entered into ; besides which , as he is the best versed in matters of trade of all your Majesty's servants who have been trusted in this secret , if you shall think ...
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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