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... diction was in his own time censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has ...
... diction was in his own time censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has ...
Page 294
... diction scholastick and popular , grave and familiar , elegant and gross ; and from a nice distinction of these different parts , arises a great part of the beauty of style . But if we except a few minds , the favourites of nature , to ...
... diction scholastick and popular , grave and familiar , elegant and gross ; and from a nice distinction of these different parts , arises a great part of the beauty of style . But if we except a few minds , the favourites of nature , to ...
Page 428
... diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of senti- ment that animates diction : there is little of ardour , vehemence , or transport ; there is very rarely the awful- ness of grandeur , and not very often the splendour ...
... diction which give lustre to sentiments , or that vigour of senti- ment that animates diction : there is little of ardour , vehemence , or transport ; there is very rarely the awful- ness of grandeur , and not very often the splendour ...
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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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