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noisily censure it, with a little extension of their malice could contrive what they
wanted to accuse. King Charles the Second, being now sheltered in Holland,
employed Salmasius, professor of polite learning at Leyden, to write a defence of
his ...
noisily censure it, with a little extension of their malice could contrive what they
wanted to accuse. King Charles the Second, being now sheltered in Holland,
employed Salmasius, professor of polite learning at Leyden, to write a defence of
his ...
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It was not to be supposed that the writer of "Paradise Lost" could ever write
without great effusions of fancy, and ex- ralted precepts of wisdom. The basis of "
Paradise Kegained " is narrow ; a dialogue without action can never please like
an ...
It was not to be supposed that the writer of "Paradise Lost" could ever write
without great effusions of fancy, and ex- ralted precepts of wisdom. The basis of "
Paradise Kegained " is narrow ; a dialogue without action can never please like
an ...
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For no modest men (as the person I write of was in perfection) will write their own
panegyricks; and it is very hard that they should go without reputation, only
because they the more deserve it. The end of writing Lives is for the imitation of
the ...
For no modest men (as the person I write of was in perfection) will write their own
panegyricks; and it is very hard that they should go without reputation, only
because they the more deserve it. The end of writing Lives is for the imitation of
the ...
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A scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced to write, by the very
pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is seldom, when people are necessitated to
it. I have known men row, and use very hard labour, for diversion, which if they
had ...
A scribbling beau may imagine a Poet may be induced to write, by the very
pleasure he finds in writing ; but that is seldom, when people are necessitated to
it. I have known men row, and use very hard labour, for diversion, which if they
had ...
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An author has a right to print his own works, and need not seek an apology in
falsehood; but he that could bear to write the dedication felt no pain in writing the
preface. Aureng Zebe (1676) is a tragedy founded on the actions of a great
prince ...
An author has a right to print his own works, and need not seek an apology in
falsehood; but he that could bear to write the dedication felt no pain in writing the
preface. Aureng Zebe (1676) is a tragedy founded on the actions of a great
prince ...
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