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a Throughout the whole , the figures are too bold , and the language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously instructive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of ...
a Throughout the whole , the figures are too bold , and the language too luxuriant for dialogue . It is a drama in the epick style , inelegantly splendid , and tediously instructive . The Sonnets were written in different parts of ...
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When it was known , it was necessarily admired : the king quoted , the courtiers studied , and the whole party of the royalists applauded it . Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author , who certainly was ...
When it was known , it was necessarily admired : the king quoted , the courtiers studied , and the whole party of the royalists applauded it . Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author , who certainly was ...
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The order or manner of its contrivance , in relation of the parts to the whole . 3. The manners , or decency of the characters , in speaking or acting what is proper for them , and proper to be shewn by the poet . ' 4.
The order or manner of its contrivance , in relation of the parts to the whole . 3. The manners , or decency of the characters , in speaking or acting what is proper for them , and proper to be shewn by the poet . ' 4.
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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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