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Page 205
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance ...
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance ...
Page 206
Samuel Johnson. added something to our elegance of diction , and some thing to our propriety of thought ; and to him may be applied what Tasso said , with equal spirit and justice of himself and Guarini , when , having perused the Pastor ...
Samuel Johnson. added something to our elegance of diction , and some thing to our propriety of thought ; and to him may be applied what Tasso said , with equal spirit and justice of himself and Guarini , when , having perused the Pastor ...
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... elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having turned many to righteousness . ADDISON , in his life , and for some time afterwards , c was considered by the greater part of readers ...
... elegance and gaiety to the aid of goodness ; and , if I may use expressions yet more awful , of having turned many to righteousness . ADDISON , in his life , and for some time afterwards , c was considered by the greater part of readers ...
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