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If these great innovations proceed , I shall expect a flat and level in learning too , as well as in church - prefer- ments : Honos alit Artes . And though it be true , that grave and pious men do study for learning - sake , and embrace ...
If these great innovations proceed , I shall expect a flat and level in learning too , as well as in church - prefer- ments : Honos alit Artes . And though it be true , that grave and pious men do study for learning - sake , and embrace ...
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Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes . To judge rightly of an author , we must ...
Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes . To judge rightly of an author , we must ...
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prefixed to the several books of Dryden's Virgil ; and produced an Essay on the Georgicks , juvenile , superficial , and uninstructive , without much either of the scholar's learning or the critick's penetration .
prefixed to the several books of Dryden's Virgil ; and produced an Essay on the Georgicks , juvenile , superficial , and uninstructive , without much either of the scholar's learning or the critick's penetration .
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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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