Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; in- quiry was awakened , and comprehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from this time to our own life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
... easily supplied . His attempt succeeded ; in- quiry was awakened , and comprehension expanded . An emulation of intellectual elegance was excited , and from this time to our own life has been gradually exalted , and conversation ...
Page 58
... easily attain . As a describer of life and manners , he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour , which , as Steele observes , is peculiar to himself , is so happily diffused as to give the grace of ...
... easily attain . As a describer of life and manners , he must be allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour , which , as Steele observes , is peculiar to himself , is so happily diffused as to give the grace of ...
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... easily separable from those by whom they are possessed , should very often flatter the mind with expectations of felicity which they cannot give , raises no astonishment : but it seems rational to hope that intellectual greatness should ...
... easily separable from those by whom they are possessed , should very often flatter the mind with expectations of felicity which they cannot give , raises no astonishment : but it seems rational to hope that intellectual greatness should ...
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... not improbable that the Lady Mason might persuade or compel her to desist , or perhaps she could not easily find accomplices wicked enough to concur 64 LIVES OF THE POETS . of that sprightly humour which distinguishes "The ...
... not improbable that the Lady Mason might persuade or compel her to desist , or perhaps she could not easily find accomplices wicked enough to concur 64 LIVES OF THE POETS . of that sprightly humour which distinguishes "The ...
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Samuel Johnson. she could not easily find accomplices wicked enough to concur in so cruel an action ; for it may be conceived that those who had by a long gradation of guilt hardened their ... easily find accomplices wicked enough to ...
Samuel Johnson. she could not easily find accomplices wicked enough to concur in so cruel an action ; for it may be conceived that those who had by a long gradation of guilt hardened their ... easily find accomplices wicked enough to ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards allowed appeared calamities Cassell's Cato censure character Cheap Edition conduct considered contempt conversation death declared Delany discovered distress E. W. HORNUNG elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius honour Illustrated imagined Ireland Juba justly kindness King letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner MAX PEMBERTON mentioned merit mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet panegyric passion pension performance perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical Pope pounds praise promise published queen R. L. STEVENSON reader reason received regard resentment resolution retired Richard Savage ROBERT STAWELL BALL SAMUEL JOHNSON Savage Savage's says Sempronius sent sentiments Sir Richard Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon Spectator STANLEY WEYMAN Steele suffered sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tenderness thought Tickell tion told tragedy verses virtue Vols Whigs write wrote