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To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aris- totle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end . There is perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so ...
To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what Aris- totle requires , a beginning , a middle , and an end . There is perhaps no poem , of the same length , from which so ...
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To the poem on Cider , written in imitation of the Georgicks , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth ; that the precepts which it contains are exact and just ; and that it is therefore , at once , a book of ...
To the poem on Cider , written in imitation of the Georgicks , may be given this peculiar praise , that it is grounded in truth ; that the precepts which it contains are exact and just ; and that it is therefore , at once , a book of ...
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This poem is written with great diligence , yet does not fully answer the expectation raised by such subjects and such a writer . With the stanza of Davenant he has some- times his vein of parenthesis , and incidental disquisition ...
This poem is written with great diligence , yet does not fully answer the expectation raised by such subjects and such a writer . With the stanza of Davenant he has some- times his vein of parenthesis , and incidental disquisition ...
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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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