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It seems reasonable to expect that a great dramatick poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite passion , should exhibit with great readiness its external modes ...
It seems reasonable to expect that a great dramatick poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite passion , should exhibit with great readiness its external modes ...
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Sure the poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never ...
Sure the poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never ...
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My judgement upon this piece is this , that it is extremely learned ; but that the author of it is better read in the Greek than in the English poets : that all writers ought to study this critique , as the best account I have ever seen ...
My judgement upon this piece is this , that it is extremely learned ; but that the author of it is better read in the Greek than in the English poets : that all writers ought to study this critique , as the best account I have ever seen ...
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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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