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To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain ...
To such a performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain ...
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In examining this performance , Nothing must be considered as having not only a negative but a kind of positive signification ; as I need not fear thieves , I have nothing ...
In examining this performance , Nothing must be considered as having not only a negative but a kind of positive signification ; as I need not fear thieves , I have nothing ...
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We still read the Dove of Anacreon , and Sparrow of Catullus ; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance , which owes nothing to the subject . But compositions merely pretty have the fate of other pretty things , and are ...
We still read the Dove of Anacreon , and Sparrow of Catullus ; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance , which owes nothing to the subject . But compositions merely pretty have the fate of other pretty things , and are ...
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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 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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