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Thus he gives him that pedantick ostenta- tion of knowledge which has no relation to chivalry , and loads him with ... It is probable , that the hero was to be led through many luckless adventures , which would give occasion , like his ...
Thus he gives him that pedantick ostenta- tion of knowledge which has no relation to chivalry , and loads him with ... It is probable , that the hero was to be led through many luckless adventures , which would give occasion , like his ...
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Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham , his con- temporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden ...
Ben Jonson thought it necessary to copy Horace almost word by word ; Feltham , his con- temporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line . It is said that Sandys , whom Dryden ...
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I hope to send you thirty guineas between Michaelmas and Christmas , of which I will give you an account when I come to town . I remember the counsel you give me in your letter ; but dissembling , though lawful in some cases , is not my ...
I hope to send you thirty guineas between Michaelmas and Christmas , of which I will give you an account when I come to town . I remember the counsel you give me in your letter ; but dissembling , though lawful in some cases , is not my ...
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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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