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... complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ...
... complains of jealousy which he never felt ; supposes himself sometimes invited , and sometimes forsaken ; fatigues his fancy , and ransacks his memory , for images which may exhibit the gaiety of hope , or the gloominess of despair ...
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His rhymes are sometimes weak words : so is found to make the rhyme twice in ten lines , and occurs often as a rhyme through his book . His double rhymes , in heroick verse , have been censured by Mrs. Phillips , who was his rival in ...
His rhymes are sometimes weak words : so is found to make the rhyme twice in ten lines , and occurs often as a rhyme through his book . His double rhymes , in heroick verse , have been censured by Mrs. Phillips , who was his rival in ...
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positions were sometimes interested , sometimes negligent , and sometimes capricious . It is not without reason that Trapp , speaking of the praises which he bestows on Palamon and Arcite , says , ' Novimus judicium Drydeni de poemate ...
positions were sometimes interested , sometimes negligent , and sometimes capricious . It is not without reason that Trapp , speaking of the praises which he bestows on Palamon and Arcite , says , ' Novimus judicium Drydeni de poemate ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics The World's classics ; 83-84 World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1952 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 019250083X, 9780192500830 |
| Length | 461 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures |
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