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In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion , a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action ...
In his poem on the death of Hervey , there is much praise , but little passion , a very just and ample delineation of such virtues as a studious privacy admits , and such intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action ...
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Known truths , however , may take a different appearance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself .
Known truths , however , may take a different appearance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images . This Milton has undertaken , and performed with pregnancy and vigour of mind peculiar to himself .
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The poem of Hudibras is not wholly English ; the original idea is to be found in the History of Don Quixote ; a book to which a mind of the greatest powers may be indebted without disgrace . Cervantes shews a man , who having , by the ...
The poem of Hudibras is not wholly English ; the original idea is to be found in the History of Don Quixote ; a book to which a mind of the greatest powers may be indebted without disgrace . Cervantes shews a man , who having , by the ...
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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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