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Page 4
This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for
the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for
the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own ...
This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for
the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for
the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own ...
Page 12
... be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind
the metaphysical poets have seldom risen . Their thoughts are often new , but
seldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they just ; and the reader ,
far ...
... be that which he that never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind
the metaphysical poets have seldom risen . Their thoughts are often new , but
seldom natural ; they are not obvious , but neither are they just ; and the reader ,
far ...
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As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than
understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not
very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on
Knowledge ...
As the authors of this race were perhaps more desirous of being admired than
understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not
very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on
Knowledge ...
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... yea world , by that impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow
This world , by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . Johnson ' s Lives .
I . a On reading the following lines , the reader may COWLEY . 17 COWLEY.
... yea world , by that impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow
This world , by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved so . Johnson ' s Lives .
I . a On reading the following lines , the reader may COWLEY . 17 COWLEY.
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a On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps cry out - Confusion
worse confounded : Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the
best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another ...
a On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps cry out - Confusion
worse confounded : Here lies a she sun , and a he moon here , She gives the
best light to his sphere , Or each is both , and all , and so They unto one another ...
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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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