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... moft defirous to please , the Truth and the Sentiment ; and if any thing offenfive , it will be only to those I am leaft forry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there being not a ...
... moft defirous to please , the Truth and the Sentiment ; and if any thing offenfive , it will be only to those I am leaft forry to offend , the vicious or the ungenerous . Many will know their own pictures in it , there being not a ...
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... moft exquifite humour . It is known that he gave numberless hints to Swift , and Pope , and Gay , of fome of the most fuking parts of their works . He was fo negle & ful of his writings that his childien tore his manufcripts and made ...
... moft exquifite humour . It is known that he gave numberless hints to Swift , and Pope , and Gay , of fome of the most fuking parts of their works . He was fo negle & ful of his writings that his childien tore his manufcripts and made ...
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... moft happily carried on through a variety of correfponding particulars that exadly hit the nature of the two infects in queftion . It is not purfued too far , nor jaded out , fo as to become quaint and affe & ted , as in the cafe of ...
... moft happily carried on through a variety of correfponding particulars that exadly hit the nature of the two infects in queftion . It is not purfued too far , nor jaded out , fo as to become quaint and affe & ted , as in the cafe of ...
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... Moft mufical , moft melancholy ! Thee oft the lonely woods among I woo to bear thy evening fong ; And think thy thrilling ftrains have power To raise Mufæus from his bower ; Or bid the tender Spenfer come From his lov'd baunt , fair ...
... Moft mufical , moft melancholy ! Thee oft the lonely woods among I woo to bear thy evening fong ; And think thy thrilling ftrains have power To raise Mufæus from his bower ; Or bid the tender Spenfer come From his lov'd baunt , fair ...
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... moft Atriking marks of accurate and extenfive erudition , and a vigorous and acute understanding . He degraded himself much by his ftrange and abfurd hypothefis of the faults of Paradife loft , which Milton's amanu enfis introduced into ...
... moft Atriking marks of accurate and extenfive erudition , and a vigorous and acute understanding . He degraded himself much by his ftrange and abfurd hypothefis of the faults of Paradife loft , which Milton's amanu enfis introduced into ...
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