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Page 121
Both are closely connected with the great action ; one was necessary to Adam as a warning , the other as a consolation . To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aris- ...
Both are closely connected with the great action ; one was necessary to Adam as a warning , the other as a consolation . To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aris- ...
Page 142
His work must have had , as it seems , the defect which Dryden imputes to Spenser ; the action could not have been one ; there could only have been a succession of incidents , each of which might have happened without the rest ...
His work must have had , as it seems , the defect which Dryden imputes to Spenser ; the action could not have been one ; there could only have been a succession of incidents , each of which might have happened without the rest ...
Page 436
But this formidable assailant is less resistible when he attacks the probability of the action , and the reasonable- ness of the plan . Every critical reader must remark , that Addison has , with a scrupulosity almost unexampled on the ...
But this formidable assailant is less resistible when he attacks the probability of the action , and the reasonable- ness of the plan . Every critical reader must remark , that Addison has , with a scrupulosity almost unexampled on the ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of Oxford world's classics Issues 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| Length | 472 pages |
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