The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical. By Samuel Johnson. ...J. Moore, No. 45, College-Green, 1801 - English poetry |
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... those who followed him have but felected fome particular plants , each accord- ing to his fancy , to cultivate and beautify . If fome things are too luxuriant , it is owing to the richness of the foil ; and if others are not arrived to ...
... those who followed him have but felected fome particular plants , each accord- ing to his fancy , to cultivate and beautify . If fome things are too luxuriant , it is owing to the richness of the foil ; and if others are not arrived to ...
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... those who utter them . As there is more variety of characters in the Iliad , fo there is of fpeeches , than in any other poem . Every thing in it has manners ( as Ariftotle expreffes it ) that is , every thing is acted or fpoken . It is ...
... those who utter them . As there is more variety of characters in the Iliad , fo there is of fpeeches , than in any other poem . Every thing in it has manners ( as Ariftotle expreffes it ) that is , every thing is acted or fpoken . It is ...
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... those ages , when a fpirit of revenge and cruelty , joined with the practice of rapine and robbery , reigned through the world ; when no mercy was fhewn but for the fake of lucre , when the greatest princes were put to the fword , and ...
... those ages , when a fpirit of revenge and cruelty , joined with the practice of rapine and robbery , reigned through the world ; when no mercy was fhewn but for the fake of lucre , when the greatest princes were put to the fword , and ...
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... those who furpaffed him . In all thefe objections we fee nothing that contradicts his title to the honour of the chief Invention ; and as long as this ( which is indeed the characteristic of poetry itself ) remains unequalled by his ...
... those who furpaffed him . In all thefe objections we fee nothing that contradicts his title to the honour of the chief Invention ; and as long as this ( which is indeed the characteristic of poetry itself ) remains unequalled by his ...
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... those which are neceffary for transfufing the fpirit of the original , and fupporting the poetical ftyle of the tranflation : and I will venture to fay , there have not been more men milled in former times by a fervile dull adherence to ...
... those which are neceffary for transfufing the fpirit of the original , and fupporting the poetical ftyle of the tranflation : and I will venture to fay , there have not been more men milled in former times by a fervile dull adherence to ...
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