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... wish for a life of ease was always returning . He went to take possession of his deanery , as soon as he had obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he ...
... wish for a life of ease was always returning . He went to take possession of his deanery , as soon as he had obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he ...
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... wish for Catholic Emancipation . Yet , when forced " to commence Irishman for life , " he insisted on the rights of the Irish Parliament ; and in the matter of Wood's halfpence he " succeeded in establishing those rights . " - H . S ...
... wish for Catholic Emancipation . Yet , when forced " to commence Irishman for life , " he insisted on the rights of the Irish Parliament ; and in the matter of Wood's halfpence he " succeeded in establishing those rights . " - H . S ...
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... wish to infringe the toleration , but he opposed their encroachments . To his duty as Dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact œconomy ; and it is said by Delany , that more money was , under his ...
... wish to infringe the toleration , but he opposed their encroachments . To his duty as Dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact œconomy ; and it is said by Delany , that more money was , under his ...
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... wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him , and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his " Ode on Soli- tude , ” written before he was twelve , in which ...
... wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him , and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his " Ode on Soli- tude , ” written before he was twelve , in which ...
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... wishes to save his money conceals his avarice by his malice . Addison had hinted his suspicion that Pope was too much a Tory ; and some of the Tories suspected his principles because he had contributed to the " Guardian , " which was ...
... wishes to save his money conceals his avarice by his malice . Addison had hinted his suspicion that Pope was too much a Tory ; and some of the Tories suspected his principles because he had contributed to the " Guardian , " which was ...
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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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