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... look the character , how- ever the poetry might suffer , better than his juvenile asso- ciates . Mr. Deane was a careless , remiss teacher , and what with studying plays and making verses , and attending the theatre in company with the ...
... look the character , how- ever the poetry might suffer , better than his juvenile asso- ciates . Mr. Deane was a careless , remiss teacher , and what with studying plays and making verses , and attending the theatre in company with the ...
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... look , and not very conversable - agreeing with Dryden's own confession- " To learning bred , I knew not what to say . " But in his highest mood of inspiration , as when composing his great Ode - sitting out the summer night in ...
... look , and not very conversable - agreeing with Dryden's own confession- " To learning bred , I knew not what to say . " But in his highest mood of inspiration , as when composing his great Ode - sitting out the summer night in ...
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... look ; " he was still a wit and beau , but in ruins . As the author of the Plain Dealer , the friend of Dryden , and the once - fashionable and irre- sistible courtier , Wycherley had powerful attractions for young Pope . In town , he ...
... look ; " he was still a wit and beau , but in ruins . As the author of the Plain Dealer , the friend of Dryden , and the once - fashionable and irre- sistible courtier , Wycherley had powerful attractions for young Pope . In town , he ...
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... look upon us as but plain country fellows since they saw you , and heard more civil things in a fortnight than they expect from the whole shire of us in an age . The trophy you bore away from one of them in your snuff - box will ...
... look upon us as but plain country fellows since they saw you , and heard more civil things in a fortnight than they expect from the whole shire of us in an age . The trophy you bore away from one of them in your snuff - box will ...
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... look upon only as the effect of that benevolence you have been ever ready to show to any who but make it their endeavour to do well . But as a little rain revives a flower which too much sur- charges and depresses , so moderate praise ...
... look upon only as the effect of that benevolence you have been ever ready to show to any who but make it their endeavour to do well . But as a little rain revives a flower which too much sur- charges and depresses , so moderate praise ...
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