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Page xxxii
... flattery Milton gives us the right divine of tyrants . acrimonious and surly republican , for which But it seems , in the same piece , he exhorts it is not known that he gave any better reason Cromwell " not to desert those great ...
... flattery Milton gives us the right divine of tyrants . acrimonious and surly republican , for which But it seems , in the same piece , he exhorts it is not known that he gave any better reason Cromwell " not to desert those great ...
Page xxxv
... flattery . The meanness of 105 The universal register , a dream 106 The vanity of an author's expectations . Reasons why good authors are sometimes neglected . ยท 145 Petty writers not to be despised 146 An account of an author ...
... flattery . The meanness of 105 The universal register , a dream 106 The vanity of an author's expectations . Reasons why good authors are sometimes neglected . ยท 145 Petty writers not to be despised 146 An account of an author ...
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Samuel Johnson. with their own productions , equally caressed by their patrons , and flattered by their friends . But ... flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me sufficient reason to dread the united attacks of this ...
Samuel Johnson. with their own productions , equally caressed by their patrons , and flattered by their friends . But ... flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me sufficient reason to dread the united attacks of this ...
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... Flattery , and those that had been infected with the waters of Lethe were , with equal haste , seized by Malevolence . The followers of Flattery , to whom she distributed her part of the sceptre , neither had nor desired light , but ...
... Flattery , and those that had been infected with the waters of Lethe were , with equal haste , seized by Malevolence . The followers of Flattery , to whom she distributed her part of the sceptre , neither had nor desired light , but ...
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... flattery , and the tempting sight of prosperous wickedness . From the necessity of dispossessing the sensi- tive faculties of the influence which they must naturally gain by this pre - occupation of the soul , arises that conflict ...
... flattery , and the tempting sight of prosperous wickedness . From the necessity of dispossessing the sensi- tive faculties of the influence which they must naturally gain by this pre - occupation of the soul , arises that conflict ...
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