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Pagina 32
... criticism , but passing his time among the great and splendid , in the placid enjoy . iment of his fame and fortune . Having owed his fortune to Halifax , he conti nued always of his patron's party , but , as it seems , without violence ...
... criticism , but passing his time among the great and splendid , in the placid enjoy . iment of his fame and fortune . Having owed his fortune to Halifax , he conti nued always of his patron's party , but , as it seems , without violence ...
Pagina 41
... criticism , more tedious and disgusting than the work which he condemns . To this cen- sure may be opposed the approbation of Locke and the admiration of Molineux , which are found in their printed letters . Molineux is particularly de ...
... criticism , more tedious and disgusting than the work which he condemns . To this cen- sure may be opposed the approbation of Locke and the admiration of Molineux , which are found in their printed letters . Molineux is particularly de ...
Pagina 42
... critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis as " equal to Boileau in poetry ... critics may be supposed to have increased in proportion . He found , however , advantages more than equiva lent ...
... critic were afterwards friends ; and in one of his latter works he praises Dennis as " equal to Boileau in poetry ... critics may be supposed to have increased in proportion . He found , however , advantages more than equiva lent ...
Pagina 43
... critic . The same year he published " A Satire on Wit ; " a proclamation of defiance , which united the poets almost all against him , and which brought upon him lampoons and ridicule from every side . This he doubtless foresaw , and ...
... critic . The same year he published " A Satire on Wit ; " a proclamation of defiance , which united the poets almost all against him , and which brought upon him lampoons and ridicule from every side . This he doubtless foresaw , and ...
Pagina 46
... critic of the first rank ; and , what is his peculiar ornament , he is delivered from the ostentation , malevolence ... critics to modern writings , and with great labour discovered nothing but their own want of judgment and capa ...
... critic of the first rank ; and , what is his peculiar ornament , he is delivered from the ostentation , malevolence ... critics to modern writings , and with great labour discovered nothing but their own want of judgment and capa ...
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