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Page 125
... less obvious to the reader , as he is less acquainted with common usages ; they are therefore wholly imperceptible to a foreigner , who learns our language from books , and will strike a solitary academic less forcibly than a modish ...
... less obvious to the reader , as he is less acquainted with common usages ; they are therefore wholly imperceptible to a foreigner , who learns our language from books , and will strike a solitary academic less forcibly than a modish ...
Page 277
... less could be performed by the writer , less likewise would content the judges of his work . Among this lagging race of frosty grovellers he might still have risen into eminence by producing something which they should not willingly let ...
... less could be performed by the writer , less likewise would content the judges of his work . Among this lagging race of frosty grovellers he might still have risen into eminence by producing something which they should not willingly let ...
Page 367
... less airy , is less pleasing . Of his other compositions it is impossible to say whether they are the productions of Nature , so excellent as not to want the help of Art , or of Art so refined as to resemble Nature . This criticism ...
... less airy , is less pleasing . Of his other compositions it is impossible to say whether they are the productions of Nature , so excellent as not to want the help of Art , or of Art so refined as to resemble Nature . This criticism ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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