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... sent at the age of six to the school at Kilkenny , and in his fifteenth year ( 1682 ) was admitted into the Univer- sity of Dublin . In his academical studies he was either not diligent or not happy . It must disappoint every reader's ...
... sent at the age of six to the school at Kilkenny , and in his fifteenth year ( 1682 ) was admitted into the Univer- sity of Dublin . In his academical studies he was either not diligent or not happy . It must disappoint every reader's ...
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... sent Swift for the same purpose to the King . Swift , who probably was proud of his employment , and went with all the confidence of a young man , found his arguments , and his art of displaying them , made totally ineffectual by the ...
... sent Swift for the same purpose to the King . Swift , who probably was proud of his employment , and went with all the confidence of a young man , found his arguments , and his art of displaying them , made totally ineffectual by the ...
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... sent , or supposed to be sent , by Letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , “ Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denuncia- tion was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence ...
... sent , or supposed to be sent , by Letters . I have been told that Dryden , having perused these verses , said , “ Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet ; " and that this denuncia- tion was the motive of Swift's perpetual malevolence ...
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... . i . p . 235 . 5 Scott describes this club as a society of about two of parliament , chiefly landed men and warm Tories . hundred members They met at the a number of Tory Gentlemen sent from the country to 16 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... . i . p . 235 . 5 Scott describes this club as a society of about two of parliament , chiefly landed men and warm Tories . hundred members They met at the a number of Tory Gentlemen sent from the country to 16 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. a number of Tory Gentlemen sent from the country to Par- liament , who formed themselves into a club , to the number of about a hundred , and met to animate the zeal and raise the expectations of each other ...
Samuel Johnson Robina Napier. a number of Tory Gentlemen sent from the country to Par- liament , who formed themselves into a club , to the number of about a hundred , and met to animate the zeal and raise the expectations of each other ...
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Página 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
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Página 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
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Página 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
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Página 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
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