The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... better than your spite , For who can rail so long as they can write ? Still humming on , their drowsy course they keep , And lash'd so long , like tops , are lash'd asleep . False steps but help them to renew the race , As , after ...
... better than your spite , For who can rail so long as they can write ? Still humming on , their drowsy course they keep , And lash'd so long , like tops , are lash'd asleep . False steps but help them to renew the race , As , after ...
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... better . An ingenious member of the Eumelian Club 16 in- forms me , that upon one occasion , when he said to him that he saw health returning to his cheek , 16. Eumelian Club : a club in London founded by a Dr. Ash , a learned and ...
... better . An ingenious member of the Eumelian Club 16 in- forms me , that upon one occasion , when he said to him that he saw health returning to his cheek , 16. Eumelian Club : a club in London founded by a Dr. Ash , a learned and ...
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... better . Originals are , and ought to be , great favourites , for they are great benefactors ; they extend the republic of let- ters , and add a new province to its dominion . Imita- tors only give us a sort of duplicates of what we had ...
... better . Originals are , and ought to be , great favourites , for they are great benefactors ; they extend the republic of let- ters , and add a new province to its dominion . Imita- tors only give us a sort of duplicates of what we had ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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