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The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings , the original parents of mankind ; with whose actions the elements consented ; on whose rectitude , or deviation of will , depended the state of terrestrial nature ...
The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings , the original parents of mankind ; with whose actions the elements consented ; on whose rectitude , or deviation of will , depended the state of terrestrial nature ...
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THE poem of Hudibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestick , the sentiments unborrowed and unexpected , and the strain of diction original and peculiar .
THE poem of Hudibras is one of those compositions of which a nation may justly boast ; as the images which it exhibits are domestick , the sentiments unborrowed and unexpected , and the strain of diction original and peculiar .
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The original incongruity runs through the whole ; the king is now Caesar , and now the Lyon ; and the name Pan is given to the Supreme Being . But when this constitutional absurdity is forgiven , the poem must be confessed to be written ...
The original incongruity runs through the whole ; the king is now Caesar , and now the Lyon ; and the name Pan is given to the Supreme Being . But when this constitutional absurdity is forgiven , the poem must be confessed to be written ...
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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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