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... discovered wide , Fled to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurked in rocks and caves long unespied . But that fair crew of knights , and Una fair , Did in that castle afterwards abide , To ...
... discovered wide , Fled to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurked in rocks and caves long unespied . But that fair crew of knights , and Una fair , Did in that castle afterwards abide , To ...
Page 47
... discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear he will erect a " Bank for Wit . " In this poem he justly censured ...
... discovered the inhabitant of Cheapside , whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with trade . To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affects to fear he will erect a " Bank for Wit . " In this poem he justly censured ...
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... discovered nothing but their own want of judgment and capacity . As Mr. Johnson penetrates to the bottom of his subject , by which means his observations are solid and natural , as well as delicate , so his design is always to bring to ...
... discovered nothing but their own want of judgment and capacity . As Mr. Johnson penetrates to the bottom of his subject , by which means his observations are solid and natural , as well as delicate , so his design is always to bring to ...
Page 53
... discovery of the author , or that the in- famous book was ever condemned to be burnt in public . Whether this proceeds from the excessive esteem and love that men in power , during the late reign , had for wit , or their defect of zeal ...
... discovery of the author , or that the in- famous book was ever condemned to be burnt in public . Whether this proceeds from the excessive esteem and love that men in power , during the late reign , had for wit , or their defect of zeal ...
Page 56
... discovered by a per- petual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them I have observed an ...
... discovered by a per- petual attempt to degrade physic from its sublimity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them I have observed an ...
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