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... living thus in a course of flattery may put him in no small danger of becoming a Coxcomb : If he has , he will confequently have fo much diffidence , as not to reap any great fatisfaction from his praife ; fince if it be given to his ...
... living thus in a course of flattery may put him in no small danger of becoming a Coxcomb : If he has , he will confequently have fo much diffidence , as not to reap any great fatisfaction from his praife ; fince if it be given to his ...
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... living ; ted no means in my power to be my errors , both by my friends and enemies ; and that I expect not to be excus'd in any negligence my self all of the judgthat I omitinform'd of on on account of youth , want of leisure , or ...
... living ; ted no means in my power to be my errors , both by my friends and enemies ; and that I expect not to be excus'd in any negligence my self all of the judgthat I omitinform'd of on on account of youth , want of leisure , or ...
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... reputation , depreciated no dead author I was obliged to , brib'd no living one with unjust praise , infulted no adverfary with ill language ; or when I could could not attack a Rival's works , encourag'd reports against 14 PREFACE .
... reputation , depreciated no dead author I was obliged to , brib'd no living one with unjust praise , infulted no adverfary with ill language ; or when I could could not attack a Rival's works , encourag'd reports against 14 PREFACE .
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... living scene is in the Mufe's glass . 25 Nor fweeter notes the echoing Forests chear , When Philomela fits and warbles there , Than when you fing the greens , and opening glades , And give us Harmony as well as Shades : A Titian's hand ...
... living scene is in the Mufe's glass . 25 Nor fweeter notes the echoing Forests chear , When Philomela fits and warbles there , Than when you fing the greens , and opening glades , And give us Harmony as well as Shades : A Titian's hand ...
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... living , and bequeath'd in death ; He faid ; Alexis , take this pipe , the same That taught the groves my Rofalinda's name : But now the reeds fhall hang on yonder tree , For ever filent , fince despis'd by thee . Oh ! were I made by ...
... living , and bequeath'd in death ; He faid ; Alexis , take this pipe , the same That taught the groves my Rofalinda's name : But now the reeds fhall hang on yonder tree , For ever filent , fince despis'd by thee . Oh ! were I made by ...
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