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... of time : and the Reader cannot but derive one pleasure from the very Obfcurity of the perfons it treats of , that it partakes of the nature of a Secret , which oft People love A 2 to to be let into , though the Men or the [ 3 ]
... of time : and the Reader cannot but derive one pleasure from the very Obfcurity of the perfons it treats of , that it partakes of the nature of a Secret , which oft People love A 2 to to be let into , though the Men or the [ 3 ]
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... pleasure ; but because it is juft , to undeceive or vindicate the honeft and unpretending part of mankind from impofition , because particular intereft ought to yield to general , and a great number who are not naturally Fools ought ...
... pleasure ; but because it is juft , to undeceive or vindicate the honeft and unpretending part of mankind from impofition , because particular intereft ought to yield to general , and a great number who are not naturally Fools ought ...
Page 17
... pleasure it must be to every reader of hu manity , to fee all along , that our Author in his very laughter , is not indulging his own Ill nature , but only punishing that of others . To his Poem those alone are capa ble to do Justice ...
... pleasure it must be to every reader of hu manity , to fee all along , that our Author in his very laughter , is not indulging his own Ill nature , but only punishing that of others . To his Poem those alone are capa ble to do Justice ...
Page 86
... pleasurable enter- tainment , especially thofe of the High - Church party . JACOB Lives of Poets , vol . 2. p . 225. Great numbers of his works are yearly fold into the Plantations . IMITATIONS . VERSE 200. And visit Alehouse . ] Waller ...
... pleasurable enter- tainment , especially thofe of the High - Church party . JACOB Lives of Poets , vol . 2. p . 225. Great numbers of his works are yearly fold into the Plantations . IMITATIONS . VERSE 200. And visit Alehouse . ] Waller ...
Page 142
... pleasure higher , Illumes their light , and fets their flames on fire . Immortal Rich ! how calm he fits at ease Mid fnows of paper , and fierce hail of peafe ; And proud his mistress ' orders to perform , 260 Rides in the whirlwind ...
... pleasure higher , Illumes their light , and fets their flames on fire . Immortal Rich ! how calm he fits at ease Mid fnows of paper , and fierce hail of peafe ; And proud his mistress ' orders to perform , 260 Rides in the whirlwind ...
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