Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 57
... 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 ...
Page 60
... 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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... she was induced to lay aside her design , I know not ; it is 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 .
... she was induced to lay aside her design , I know not ; it is 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 .
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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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