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Page 4
This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of
Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his
Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and
poetry ...
This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of
Petrarch , who , in an age rude and uncultivated , by his tuneful homage to his
Laura , refined the manners of the lettered world , and filled Europe with love and
poetry ...
Page 13
It is with great propriety that subtlety , which in its original import means exility of
particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those
writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for ...
It is with great propriety that subtlety , which in its original import means exility of
particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those
writers who lay on the watch for novelty , could have little hope of greatness ; for ...
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Thus he represents the meditations of a Lover : Though in thy thoughts scarce
any tracts have been So much as of original sin , Such charms thy beauty wears ,
as might Desires in dying confest saints excite . Thou with strange adultery Dost
in ...
Thus he represents the meditations of a Lover : Though in thy thoughts scarce
any tracts have been So much as of original sin , Such charms thy beauty wears ,
as might Desires in dying confest saints excite . Thou with strange adultery Dost
in ...
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Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance ,
and the conclusion below it in strength . The connexion is supplied with great
perspicuity ; and thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together
by ...
Of the Olympic Ode , the beginning is , I think , above the original in elegance ,
and the conclusion below it in strength . The connexion is supplied with great
perspicuity ; and thoughts , which to a reader of less skill seem thrown together
by ...
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In the Nemæan Ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe , that
whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is
superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy ...
In the Nemæan Ode the reader must , in mere justice to Pindar , observe , that
whatever is said of the original new moon , her tender forehead and her horns , is
superadded by his paraphrast , who has many other plays of words and fancy ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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