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... published so long after the Revolution as Thomson's Liberty and Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination . These works , indeed , are of the didactic order . But in the period im- mediately following the Revolution , while men's passions ...
... published so long after the Revolution as Thomson's Liberty and Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination . These works , indeed , are of the didactic order . But in the period im- mediately following the Revolution , while men's passions ...
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... published while the struggle between Whig and Tory was at its acutest point . The new character of panegyrical poetry may first be noted in the compositions of Charles Montague , who in time became Baron and then Earl of Halifax ...
... published while the struggle between Whig and Tory was at its acutest point . The new character of panegyrical poetry may first be noted in the compositions of Charles Montague , who in time became Baron and then Earl of Halifax ...
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... published some volumes of Essays , in which he attacked Swift , as the writer of A Tale of a Tub , and Pope , as " a godless author who has burlesqued a Psalm " : it must be added , however , that in neither case was Blackmore the first ...
... published some volumes of Essays , in which he attacked Swift , as the writer of A Tale of a Tub , and Pope , as " a godless author who has burlesqued a Psalm " : it must be added , however , that in neither case was Blackmore the first ...
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... published in 1699. The College of Physicians appointed him one of its censors in 1702 . Garth early attached himself to the Whig Party , and constantly endeavoured to promote its fortunes . He was a member of the Kit - Kat Club , and ...
... published in 1699. The College of Physicians appointed him one of its censors in 1702 . Garth early attached himself to the Whig Party , and constantly endeavoured to promote its fortunes . He was a member of the Kit - Kat Club , and ...
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... published till 1701 , when it appeared in A Collection of Poems printed by David Brown and Ben Tooke . Probably it gradually attracted attention , for in 1705 it was printed — as Smith relates , surreptitiously - in a separate folio ...
... published till 1701 , when it appeared in A Collection of Poems printed by David Brown and Ben Tooke . Probably it gradually attracted attention , for in 1705 it was printed — as Smith relates , surreptitiously - in a separate folio ...
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