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... kind of criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter ...
... kind of criticism is eager to fall upon ; but , after all , a footnote will set it right at once . And Johnson himself never valued his work on the purely formal estimate ; he was never , as Boswell records , in any great hurry to alter ...
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... kind uttered in and approved by a generation of men most eagerly interested in the literary art : an expression , accordingly , of the highest value and importance from an historical point of view . We endeavour , then , before studying ...
... kind uttered in and approved by a generation of men most eagerly interested in the literary art : an expression , accordingly , of the highest value and importance from an historical point of view . We endeavour , then , before studying ...
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... kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . In 1636 he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his studies with ...
... kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's minority . In 1636 he was removed to Cambridge , where he continued his studies with ...
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... 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 from wonder- ing that he missed them , wonders more frequently ...
... 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 from wonder- ing that he missed them , wonders more frequently ...
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... kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence ...
... kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus defined , they have more than enough . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence ...
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