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Page 99
... passages , and among them to the simile of the sun eclipsed in the first book , yet the license was granted ; and he sold his copy , April 27 , 1667 , to Samuel Simmons , for an immediate payment of five pounds , with a stipulation to ...
... passages , and among them to the simile of the sun eclipsed in the first book , yet the license was granted ; and he sold his copy , April 27 , 1667 , to Samuel Simmons , for an immediate payment of five pounds , with a stipulation to ...
Page 129
... passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as real and sensible , and the bridge ought to be only figurative . The hell assigned to the re- bellious spirits is described as not less local than ...
... passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as real and sensible , and the bridge ought to be only figurative . The hell assigned to the re- bellious spirits is described as not less local than ...
Page 231
... passages of their own authors to be really sublime which come the nearest to it ; he often calls that a noble and a great thought which is only a pretty and fine one , and has more instances of the sublime out of Ovid de Tristibus ...
... passages of their own authors to be really sublime which come the nearest to it ; he often calls that a noble and a great thought which is only a pretty and fine one , and has more instances of the sublime out of Ovid de Tristibus ...
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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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