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Both are closely connected with the great action ; one was necessary to Adam as a warning , the other as a consolation . To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what ...
Both are closely connected with the great action ; one was necessary to Adam as a warning , the other as a consolation . To the compleatness or integrity of the design nothing can be objected ; it has distinctly and clearly what ...
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His work must hav had , as it seems , the defect which Dryden imputes 1 Spenser ; the action could not have been one ; there coul only have been a succession of incidents , each of whic might have happened without the rest , and which ...
His work must hav had , as it seems , the defect which Dryden imputes 1 Spenser ; the action could not have been one ; there coul only have been a succession of incidents , each of whic might have happened without the rest , and which ...
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Now ther ought to be nothing in a tragical action but what necessary or probable . ' But treason is not the only thing that is carried on in this hall : that and love , and philosophy , take their turn in it , without any manner of ...
Now ther ought to be nothing in a tragical action but what necessary or probable . ' But treason is not the only thing that is carried on in this hall : that and love , and philosophy , take their turn in it , without any manner of ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volume 83 of Oxford world's classics Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Contributor | Arthur Waugh |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 493 pages |
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