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... Poets , he did so in an easy and listless frame of mind . ' The task , ' he said , ' is not very extensive or diffi- cult ... my plan does not exact much . ' And yet to - day Irene and Rasselas are read by few except the conscientious ...
... Poets , he did so in an easy and listless frame of mind . ' The task , ' he said , ' is not very extensive or diffi- cult ... my plan does not exact much . ' And yet to - day Irene and Rasselas are read by few except the conscientious ...
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... poet's work , and the poetry itself was the essential part of the undertaking . Johnson originally proposed to himself a somewhat perfunctory piece of editing . The prefaces were to be brief biographical notes , with a sentence or two ...
... poet's work , and the poetry itself was the essential part of the undertaking . Johnson originally proposed to himself a somewhat perfunctory piece of editing . The prefaces were to be brief biographical notes , with a sentence or two ...
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... Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dila- torily and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . ' It is the common burthen of man's working - day ; but in this case the fruit of it remains to challenge the ...
... Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dila- torily and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . ' It is the common burthen of man's working - day ; but in this case the fruit of it remains to challenge the ...
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... standard of the age , and , as a beginning , we let our eye range over the list of poets included in the volume . In a moment , a singular catalogue of omissions springs into the memory . As a poet Shakespeare is almost INTRODUCTION xi.
... standard of the age , and , as a beginning , we let our eye range over the list of poets included in the volume . In a moment , a singular catalogue of omissions springs into the memory . As a poet Shakespeare is almost INTRODUCTION xi.
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Samuel Johnson. into the memory . As a poet Shakespeare is almost entirely unmentioned , but that , no doubt , was due to the scheme of the series . The prefaces were to serve as preludes to the poetical text , and such an arrangement ...
Samuel Johnson. into the memory . As a poet Shakespeare is almost entirely unmentioned , but that , no doubt , was due to the scheme of the series . The prefaces were to serve as preludes to the poetical text , and such an arrangement ...
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