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... Addison towards Pope on account of the latter's undertaking the translation of Homer's Iliad . Addison set up another rival translation in the name of Tickell , and hence the breaking off between him and Pope . " Damn with faint praise ...
... Addison towards Pope on account of the latter's undertaking the translation of Homer's Iliad . Addison set up another rival translation in the name of Tickell , and hence the breaking off between him and Pope . " Damn with faint praise ...
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... Addison . What are the chief excellencies and defects of Milton's Paradise Lost according to the criticism on that poem in the Spectator ? Whom does Dryden call the hero of Paradise Lost , and what does Addison say upon the same subject ...
... Addison . What are the chief excellencies and defects of Milton's Paradise Lost according to the criticism on that poem in the Spectator ? Whom does Dryden call the hero of Paradise Lost , and what does Addison say upon the same subject ...
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... Addison in his essay on Wit ' in the Spectator has alluded to the practise of it . ( 19. ) The fourth line " And torture one poor word ten thousand ways " alludes to the practise of combining the letters of a word in different ways and ...
... Addison in his essay on Wit ' in the Spectator has alluded to the practise of it . ( 19. ) The fourth line " And torture one poor word ten thousand ways " alludes to the practise of combining the letters of a word in different ways and ...
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... Addison would blame— ( 43. ) Dryden calls Satan the hero of the Poem and that he considers as a grand defect but Addison says , no , rather Messiah is the hero of the Poem ( 44. ) Addison's prose style is plain , smooth and simple , and ...
... Addison would blame— ( 43. ) Dryden calls Satan the hero of the Poem and that he considers as a grand defect but Addison says , no , rather Messiah is the hero of the Poem ( 44. ) Addison's prose style is plain , smooth and simple , and ...
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... Addison . ( 19 ) . In writing acrostics the letters beginning the verses form a name or any word . This is the allusion in the fourth line : ( 20 ) . The old story here alluded is that of the Thessalian maids who had the magical power ...
... Addison . ( 19 ) . In writing acrostics the letters beginning the verses form a name or any word . This is the allusion in the fourth line : ( 20 ) . The old story here alluded is that of the Thessalian maids who had the magical power ...
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Page 3 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise, Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
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Page 29 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.