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Critics have pointed out again and again that it is out of scale with the rest , giving far too much importance to a ... This is the sort of error that a certain kind of criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote ...
Critics have pointed out again and again that it is out of scale with the rest , giving far too much importance to a ... This is the sort of error that a certain kind of criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote ...
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Poetry and criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ' : here , as so often elsewhere , we have the old conflict between art and morals unflinch- ingly faced , and art handed over , scrip and scrippage ...
Poetry and criticism , to begin with , were to ' tend to the promotion of piety ' : here , as so often elsewhere , we have the old conflict between art and morals unflinch- ingly faced , and art handed over , scrip and scrippage ...
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The dialogue on the Drama was one of his first essays of criticism , written when he was yet a timorous candidate for reputation , and therefore laboured with that diligence which he might allow himself somewhat to remit , when his name ...
The dialogue on the Drama was one of his first essays of criticism , written when he was yet a timorous candidate for reputation , and therefore laboured with that diligence which he might allow himself somewhat to remit , when his name ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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